[p. 133] by the bladder indicate favorably, but
in the greatest number they indicated a melting of the body, disorder
of the bowels, pains, and a want of crisis.| It will readily be understood that a colliquative diabetes would prove a very unfavorable complication of these complaints. |
Part 11
Persons laboring under phrenitis and causus were particularly
disposed to coma; but also in all other great diseases which occurred
along with fever. In the main, most cases were attended either by
heavy coma, or by short and light sleep.
Part 12
And many other forms of fevers were then epidemic, of tertian,
of quartan, of nocturnal, | By nocturnal fevers, according to Galen, was meant quotidians, which had their paroxysms during the night. |
of continual, of chronic, of erratic, of fevers attended with nausea, and of irregular fevers. All these were attended with much disorder, for the bowels in most cases were disordered, accompanied with rigors, sweats not of a critical character, and with the state of the urine as described. In most instances the disease
was protracted, for neither did the deposits which took place prove
critical as in other cases; for in all complaints and in all cases
there was difficulty of crisis, want of crisis, and protraction of
the disease, but most especially in these. A few had the crisis about
the eightieth day, but in most instances it (the disease?) left them
irregularly. A few of them died of dropsy without being confined to
bed. And in many other diseases people were troubled with swelling,
but more especially in phthisical cases.
Part 13
The greatest and most dangerous disease, and the one that proved
fatal to the greatest number, was consumption. With many persons it
commenced during the winter, and of these some were confined to bed,
and others bore up on foot; the most of those died early in spring
who were confined to bed; of the others, the cough left not a single
person, but it became milder through the summer; during the autumn,
all these were confined to bed, and many of them died, but in the
greater number of cases the disease was long protracted. Most of these
were suddenly attacked with these diseases, having frequent rigors,
often continual and acute fevers; unseasonable, copious,
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