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her entirely, but having paroxysms in an irregular form, sometimes
present, sometimes not. On the sixtieth, the coughs left her without
a crisis, for no concoction of the sputa took place, nor any of the
usual abscesses; jaw on the right side convulsively retracted; comatose,
was again incoherent, and immediately became collected; utter aversion
to food; the jaw became relaxed; alvine discharges small, and bilious;
fever more acute, affected with rigors; on the following days lost
her speech, and again became collected, and talked. On the eightieth
she died. In this case the urine throughout was black, thin, and watery;
coma supervened; there was aversion to food, despondency,
and insomnolency; irritability, restlessness; she was of a melancholic
turn of mind.
Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the suppression of the lochial discharge caused death on the day.
Case 3
In Thasus, Pythion, who was lodged above the Temple of Hercules,
from labor, fatigue, and neglected diet, was seized with strong rigor
and acute fever; tongue dry, thirsty, and bilious; had no sleep; urine
darkish, eneorema floating on the top of the urine, did not subside.
On the second day, about noon, coldness of the extremities, especially
about the hands and head; loss of speech and of articulation; breathing
short for a considerable time; recovered his heat; thirst; passed
the night quietly; slight sweats about the head. On the third, passed
the day in a composed state; in the evening, about sunset, slight
chills; nausea, agitation; passed the night in a painful state; had
no sleep; small stools of compact faeces passed from the bowels. On
the fourth, in the morning, composed; about noon all the symptoms
became exacerbated; coldness, loss of speech, and of articulation;
became worse; recovered his heat after a time; passed black urine,
having substances floating in it; the night quiet; slept. On the fifth,
seemed to be lightened, but a painful weight about the belly; thirsty,
passed the night in a painful state. On the sixth, in the morning,
in a quiet state; in the evening the pains greater; had a paroxysm;
in the evening the bowels properly opened by a small clyster; slept
at night.
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