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without fever ; a crisis. The sore near the seat
suppurated slightly, and burst at the crisis. After
the crisis, on the seventh day, she had a rigor ; grew
slightly hot ; sweated. Afterwards the extremities
always cold. About the tenth day, after the sweating
that occurred, she grew delirious, but was soon
rational again. They said that the trouble was due
to eating grapes. After an intermission, on the
twelfth day she again wandered a great deal ; the
bowels were disturbed, with bilious, uncompounded,
scanty, thin, irritating stools, which frequently made
her get up. She died the seventh day from the
second attack of delirium. This patient at the
beginning of the illness had pain in the throat,
which was red throughout. The uvula was drawn
back. Many fluxes, Here ῥεύματα πολλὰ must mean "many fluxes," but in
Epidemics III. iv. it means "copions fluxes." | scanty and acrid. She had a
cough with signs of coction, but brought up nothing.Or, with Galen's reading, "she had a cough, but brought
up no concocted suptum." |
No appetite for any food the whole time, nor did
she desire anything. No thirst, and she drank
nothing worth mentioning. She was silent, and did
not converse at all. Depression, the patient despairing
of herself. There was also some inherited
tendency to consumption.
CASE VII
The woman suffering from angina who lay sick
in the house of Aristion began her complaint with
indistinctness of speech. Tongue red, and grew
parched.
First day. Shivered, and grew hot.
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