diseases people were troubled with swelling, but more especially in

phthisical cases.

13. The greatest and most dangerous disease, and the one that proved

fatal to the greatest number, was consumption. With many persons it

commenced during the winter, and of these some were confined to bed,

and others bore up on foot; the most of those died early in spring who

were confined to bed; of the others, the cough left not a single

person, but it became milder through the summer; during the autumn,

all these were confined to bed, and many of them died, but in the

greater number of cases the disease was long protracted. Most of these

were suddenly attacked with these diseases, having frequent rigors,

often continual and acute fevers; unseasonable, copious, and cold

sweats throughout; great coldness, from which they had great

difficulty in being restored to heat; the bowels variously

constipated, and again immediately in a loose state, but towards the

termination in all cases with violent looseness of the bowels; a

determination downwards of all matters collected about the lungs;

urine excessive, and not good; troublesome melting. The coughs

throughout were frequent, and copious, digested, and liquid, but not

brought up with much pain; and even when they had some slight pain, in

all cases the purging of the matters about the lungs went on mildly.

The fauces were not very irritable, nor were they troubled with any

saltish humors; but there were viscid, white, liquid, frothy, and

copious defluxions from the head. But by far the greatest mischief

attending these and the other complaints, was the aversion to food, as

has been described. For neither been described. For neither had they

any relish for drink along with their food, but continued without

thirst. There was heaviness of the body, disposition to coma, in

most cases swelling, which ended in dropsy; they had rigors, and

were delirious towards death.

14. The form of body peculiarly subject to phthisical complaints was

the smooth, the whitish, that resembling the lentil; the reddish,