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disappeared without a sign. | That is, with no symptoms indicative
of a crisis. |
The sufferers were
youths, young men, and men in their prime, usually
those who frequented the wrestling school and
gymnasia. Few women were attacked. Many had
dry coughs which brought up nothing when they
coughed, but their voices were hoarse. Soon after,
though in some cases after some time, painful
inflammations occurred either in one testicle or in
both, sometimes accompanied with fever, in other
cases not. Usually they caused much suffering. In
other respects the people had no ailments requiring
medical assistance.| That is, nobody was ill enough to make a visit
to the
physician's surgery (ἱητρεῖον) necessary. |
PART 2
II. Beginning early in the summer, throughout
the summer and in winter many of those who had
been ailing a long time took to their beds in a state
of consumption, while many also who had hitherto
been doubtful sufferers at this time showed undoubted
symptoms. Some showed the symptoms now for
the first time ; these were those whose constitution
inclined to be consumptive. Many, in fact most of
these, died ; of those who took to their beds I do not
know one who survived even for a short time. Death
came more promptly than is usual in consumption,
and yet the other complaints, which will be described
presently, though longer and attended with fever,
were easily supported and did not prove fatal. For
consumption was the worst of the diseases that
occurred, and alone was responsible for the great
mortality.
In the majority of cases the symptoms were these.
Fever with shivering, continuous, acute, not completely
intermitting, but of the semitertian type ;
remitting during one day they were exacerbated on
the next, becoming on the whole more acute. Sweats
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