faeces; the urine throughout bad; for the most part coma, or
insomnolency with pain; continued aversion to food. Ardent fever.
Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the weakness
produced by the fever, the phrenitis, and affection of the
hypochondrium caused death on the hundred and twentieth day.
CASE II. In Thasus, the woman who lodged near the Cold Water, on the
third day after delivery of a daughter, the lochial discharge not
taking place, was seized with acute fever, accompanied with rigors.
But a considerable time before delivery she was feverish, confined
to bed, and loathed her food. After the rigor which took place,
continual and acute fevers, with rigors. On the eighth and following
days, was very incoherent, and immediately afterwards became
collected; bowels disordered, with copious, thin, watery, and
bilious stools; no thirst. On the eleventh was collected, but disposed
to coma; urine copious, thin, and black; no sleep. On the twentieth,
slight chills, and immediately afterwards was warm; slight
incoherence; no sleep; with regard to the bowels, in the same
condition; urine watery, and copious. On the twenty-seventh, free from
fever; bowels constipated; not long afterwards violent pain of the
right hip-joint for a considerable time; fevers afterwards supervened;
urine watery. On the fortieth, complaints about the hip-joint
better; continued coughs, with copious, watery sputa; bowels
constipated; aversion to food; urine the same; fever not leaving her
entirely, but having paroxysms in an irregular form, sometimes
present, sometimes not. On the sixtieth, the coughs left her without a
crisis, for no concoction of the sputa took place, nor any of the
usual abscesses; jaw on the right side convulsively retracted;
comatose, was again incoherent, and immediately became collected;
utter aversion to food; the jaw became relaxed; alvine discharges
small, and bilious; fever more acute, affected with rigors; on the
following days lost her speech, and again became collected, and
talked. On the eightieth she died. In this case the urine throughout