the symptoms were exacerbated, yet the urine was thick, and more

inclined to have a sediment; the nausea less; he slept. On the

third, fever was milder; abundance of urine, which was concocted,

and had a copious sediment; passed a quiet night. On the fourth, had a

copious and warm sweat all over about noon; was free of fever, had a

crisis, no relapse. An acute affection.

CASE VII. In Abdera, the young woman who was lodged in the Sacred

Walk was seized with an ardent fever. She was thirsty, and could not

sleep; had menstruation for the first time. On the sixth, much nausea,

flushing, was chilly, and tossed about. On the seventh, in the same

state; urine thin,but of a good color; no disturbance about the

bowels. On the eighth, deafness, acute fever, insomnolency, nausea,

rigors, became collected; urine the same. On the ninth, in the same

state, and also on the following days; thus the deafness persisted. On

the fourteenth, disorder of the intellect; the fever abated. On the

seventeenth, a copious hemorrhage from the nose; the deafness slightly

better; and on the following days, nausea, deafness, and

incoherence. On the twentieth, pain of the feet; deafness and delirium

left her; a small hemorrhage from the nose; sweat, apyrexia. On the

twenty-fourth, the fever returned, deafness again; pain of the feet

remained; incoherence. On the twenty-seventh, had a copious sweat,

apyrexia; the deafness left her; the pain of her feet partly remained;

in other respects had a complete crisis.

Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the restoration

of health on the twentieth day was the result of the evacuation of

urine.

CASE VIII. In Abdera, Anaxion, who was lodged near the with Thracian

Gates, was seized with an acute fever; pain of the right dry cough,

without expectoration during the first days, thirst, insomnolency;

urine well colored, copious, and thin. On the sixth, delirious; no

relief from the warm applications. On the seventh, in a painful state,

for the fever while the pains did not abate, and the cough was

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