[p. 118]in the head
and left side from the commencement, and had other pains resembling
those produced by fatigue; paroxysms of the fevers inconstant and
irregular; occasional sweats; the paroxysms generally attacked on
the critical days. About the twenty-fourth was cold in the extremities
of the hands, vomitings bilious, yellow, and frequent, soon turning
to a verdigris-green color; general relief. About the thirtieth, began
to have hemorrhage from both nostrils, and this continued in an irregular
manner until near the crisis; did not loathe food, and had no thirst
throughout, nor was troubled with insomnolency; urine thin, and not
devoid of color. When about the thirtieth day, passed reddish urine,
having a copious red sediment; was relieved, but afterwards the characters
of the urine varied, sometimes having sediment, and sometimes not.
On the sixtieth, the sediment in the urine copious, white, and smooth;
all the symptoms ameliorated; intermission of the fever; urine thin,
and well colored. On the seventieth, fever gone for ten days. On the
eightieth had a rigor, was seized with acute fever, sweated much;
a red, smooth sediment in the urine; and a perfect crisis.
Case 7
Meton was seized with fever; there was a painful weight in
the loins. Next day, after drinking water pretty copiously, had proper
evacuations from the bowels. On the third, heaviness of the head,
stools thin, bilious, and reddish. On the fourth, all the symptoms
exacerbated; had twice a scanty trickling of blood from the right
nostril; passed an uncomfortable night; alvine discharges like those
on the third day; urine darkish, had a darkish cloud floating in it,
of a scattered form, which did not subside. On the fifth, a copious
hemorrhage of pure blood from the left he sweated, and had a crisis.
After the fever restless, and had some delirium; urine thin, and darkish;
had an affusion of warm water on the head; slept and recovered his
senses. In this case there was no relapse, but there were frequent
hemorrhages after the crisis.
Case 8
Erasinus, who lived near the Canal of Bootes, was seized
with fever after supper; passed the night in an agitated state. During
the first day quiet, but in pain at night. On the second, symptoms
all exacerbated; at night delirious. On the
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