were affected in this manner, and I did not know a single case of

recovery, in which there was not a relapse agreeably to the stated

order of relapses; and all those recovered in which the relapses

took place according to this form: nor did I know a single instance of

those who then passed through the disease in this manner who had

another relapse.

13. In these diseases death generally happened on the sixth day,

as with Epaminondas, Silenus, and Philiscus the son of Antagoras.

Those who had parotid swellings experienced a crisis on the

twentieth day, but in all these cases the disease went off without

coming to a suppuration, and was turned upon the bladder. But in

Cratistonax, who lived by the temple of Hercules, and in the maid

servant of Scymnus the fuller, it turned to a suppuration, and they

died. Those who had a crisis on the seventh day, had an intermission

of nine days, and a relapse which came to a crisis on the fourth day

from the return of the fever, as was the case with Pantacles, who

resided close by the temple of Bacchus. Those who had a crisis on

the seventh day, after an interval of six days had a relapse, from

which they had a crisis on the seventh day, as happened to

Phanocritus, who was lodged with Gnathon the fuller. During the

winter, about the winter solstices, and until the equinox, the

ardent fevers and frenzies prevailed, and many died. The crisis,

however, changed, and happened to the greater number on the fifth

day from the commencement, left them for four days and relapsed; and

after the return, there was a crisis on the fifth day, making in all

fourteen days. The crisis took place thus in the case of most

children, also in elder persons. Some had a crisis on the eleventh

day, a relapse on the fourteenth, a complete crisis on the

twentieth; but certain persons, who had a rigor about the twentieth,

had a crisis on the fortieth. The greater part had a rigor along

with the original crisis, and these had also a rigor about the

crisis in the relapse. There were fewest cases of rigor in the spring,