was black, thin, and watery; coma supervened; there was aversion to
food, aversion to food, despondency, and insomnolency; irritability,
restlessness; she was of a melancholic turn of mind.
Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the suppression
of the lochial discharge caused death on the day.
CASE III. In Thasus, Pythion, who was lodged above the Temple of
Hercules, from labor, fatigue, and neglected diet, was seized with
strong rigor and acute fever; tongue dry, thirsty, and bilious; had no
sleep; urine darkish, eneorema floating on the top of the urine, did
not subside. On the second day, about noon, coldness of the
extremities, especially about the hands and head; loss of speech and
of articulation; breathing short for a considerable time; recovered
his heat; thirst; passed the night quietly; slight sweats about the
head. On the third, passed the day in a composed state; in the
evening, about sunset, slight chills; nausea, agitation; passed the
night in a painful state; had no sleep; small stools of compact faeces
passed from the bowels. On the fourth, in the morning, composed; about
noon all the symptoms became exacerbated; coldness, loss of speech,
and of articulation; became worse; recovered his heat after a time;
passed black urine, having substances floating in it; the night quiet;
slept. On the fifth, seemed to be lightened, but a painful weight
about the belly; thirsty, passed the night in a painful state. On
the sixth, in the morning, in a quiet state; in the evening the
pains greater; had a paroxysm; in the evening the bowels properly
opened by a small clyster; slept at night. On the seventh, during
the day, in a state of nausea, somewhat disturbed; passed urine of the
appearance of oil; at night, much agitation, was incoherent, did not
sleep. On the eighth, in the morning, slept a little; but
immediately coldness, loss of speech, respiration small and weak;
but in the evening recovered his heat again; was delirious, but
towards day was somewhat lightened; stools small, bilious, and
unmixed. On the ninth, affected with coma, and with nausea when