[p. 105] in the earliest of these about
the eightieth day, and some of these relapsed, so that most of them
were not free from the fever during the winter; but the fever left
most of them without a crisis, and these things happened alike to
those who recovered and to those who did not. There being much want
of crisis and much variety as to these diseases, the greatest and
worst symptom attended the most of them, namely, a loathing of all
articles of food, more especially with those who had otherwise fatal
symptoms; but they were not unseasonably thirsty in such fevers. After
a length of time, with much suffering and great wasting, abscesses
were formed in these cases, either unusually large, so that the patients
could not support them, or unusually small, so that they did no good,
but soon relapsed and speedily got worse. The diseases which attacked
them were in the form of dysenteries, tenesmus, lientery, and fluxes;
but, in some cases, there were dropsies, with or without these complaints.
Whatever attacked them violently speedily cut them off, or again,
did them no good. Small rashes, and not corresponding to the violence
of the disease, and quickly disappearing, or swellings occurred about
the ears, which were not resolved, and brought on no crisis. In some
they were determined to the joints, and especially to the hip-joint,
terminating critically with a few, and quickly again increasing to
its original habit.
PART 4
Perons died of all these diseases, but mostly of these fevers,
and notably infants just weaned, and older children, until eight or
ten years of age, and those before puberty. These things occurred
to those affected with the complaints described above, and to many
persons at first without them. The only favorable symptom, and the
greatest of those which occurred, and what saved most of those who
were in the greatest dangers, was the conversion of it to a strangury,
and when, in addition to this, abscesses were formed. The strangury
attacked, most especially, persons of the ages I have mentioned, but
it also occurred in many others, both of those who were not confined
to bed and those who were. There was a speedy and great change in
all these cases. For the bowels, if they happened previously to have
watery discharges of a bad character, became regular, they got an
appetite for food, and the
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