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there came a copious discharge of solid stools, thin,
I take
λεπτός2 here to mean "thinner than usual, than
might have been expected," a meaning it has once or twice in
the Hippocratic Corpus. It might also mean "consisting of
small pieoes." See on Epidemics III, Case II (first
series). |
as it were unconcocted, painful. Urine painful and
irritating. Extremities grow a little warmer ;
fitful sleep ; coma ; speechlessness ; thin, transparent
urine.
Ninth day. Same symptoms.
Tenth day. Took no drink ; coma ; fitful sleep.
Discharges from the bowels similar ; had a copious
discharge of thickish urine, which on standing left
a farinaceous, white deposit ; extremities again cold.
Eleventh day. Death.
From the beginning the breath in this case was
throughout rare and large. Continuous throbbing
of the hypochondrium ; age about twenty years.
CASE III
Herophon had acute fever ; scanty stools with
tenesmus at the beginning, afterwards becoming
thin, bilious and fairly frequent. No sleep ; urine
black and thin.
Fifth day. Deafness early in the day ; general
exacerbation ; spleen swollen ; tension of the hypochondrium ;
scanty black stools ; delirium.
Sixth day. Wandering talk ; at night sweat and
chill ; the wandering persisted.
Seventh Day. Chill all over ; thirst ; out of his
mind. During the night he was rational, and slept.
Eighth day. Fever ; spleen lessened ; quite
rational ; pain at first in the groin, on the side of
the spleen ; then the pains extended to both legs.
Night comfortable ; urine of a better colour, with a
slight deposit.
Ninth day. Sweat, crisis, intermission.