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with shivering fevers, but with slight sweats, the
paroxysms being variable and irregular.
| The words omitted by
Kéhlewein mean "not intermitting
altogether, but with exacerbations after the manner
of tertians." |
The earliest
crisis was about the twentieth day ; in most cases
the crisis was about the fortieth day, though in
many it was about the eightieth. In some cases
the illness did not end in this way, but in an
irregular manner without a crisis. In the majority
of these cases the fevers relapsed after a brief
interval, and after the relapse a crisis occurred at
the end of the same periods as before. The disease
in many of these instances was so protracted that
it even lasted during the winter.
Out of all those described in this constitution
only the consumptives showed a high mortality-rate ;
for all the other patients bore up well, and the
other fevers did not prove fatal.
SECOND CONSTITUTION
PART 4
IV. In Thasos early in autumn occurred unseasonable
wintry storms, suddenly with many north
and south winds bursting out into rains. These conditions
continued until the setting of the Pleiades and
during their season. Winter was northerly ; many
violent and abundant rains ; snows ; generally there
were fine intervals. With all this, however, the cold
weather was not exceptionally unseasonable. But
immediately after the winter solstice, when the west
wind usually begins to blow, there was a return of
severe wintry weather, much north wind, snow and
