Sixteen Cases of Disease



CASE I. In Thasus, the Parian who lodged above the Temple of Diana

was seized with an acute fever, at first of a continual and ardent

type; thirsty, inclined to be comatose at first, and afterwards

troubled with insomnolency; bowels disordered at the beginning,

urine thin. On the sixth day, passed oily urine, was delirious. On the

seventh, all the symptoms were exacerbated; had no sleep, but the

urine of the same characters, and the understanding disordered; alvine

dejections bilious and fatty. On the eighth, a slight epistaxis; small

vomiting of verdigris-green matters; slept a little. On the ninth,

in the same state. On the tenth, all the symptoms gave way. On the

eleventh, he sweated, but not over the whole body; he became cold, but

immediately recovered his heat again. On the fourteenth, acute

fever; discharges bilious, thin, and copious; substances floating in

the urine; he became incoherent. On the seventeenth, in a painful

state, for he had no sleep, and the fever was more intense. On the

twentieth, sweated all over; apyrexia, dejections bilious; aversion to

food, comatose. On the twenty-fourth, had a relapse. On the

thirty-fourth, apyrexia; bowels not confined; and he again recovered

his heat. Fortieth, apyrexia, bowels confined for no long time,

aversion to food; had again slight symptoms of fever, and throughout

in an irregular form; apyrexia at times, and at others not; for if the

fever intermitted, and was alleviated for a little, it immediately

relapsed again; he used much and improper food; sleep bad; about the

time of the relapse he was delirious; passed thick urine at that time,

but troubled, and of bad characters; bowels at first confined, and

again loose; slight fevers of a continual type; discharges copious and

thin. On the hundred and twentieth day he died. In this patient the

bowels were constantly from the first either loose, with bilious,

liquid, and copious dejections, or constipated with hot and undigested