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PART 5
V. Much trouble was caused to some patients by
the tumours in the throat, inflammations of the
tongue and the abscesses about the teeth. Many had
the symptom of impaired and muffled | The word so rendered has
puzzled the commentators
from very early times. See the full disoussion of Littré
ad loc. The ancients interpreted either "cooped up" or
"altered," "faussée" (Littré). See Erotian sub voce φωναὶ
κατείλλουσαι. I think that H. used a strange word metaphorically
on purpose to describe a strange alteration in the
voice, which was as it were "imprisoned" or (to borrow a
motoring expression) "silenced." |
voice, at first
at the beginning of the cases of consumption, but
also in the ardent fevers and in phrenitis.
PART 6
VI. Now the ardent fevers and phrenitis began
early in the spring after the cold snaps which
occurred, and very many fell sick at that time.
These suffered acute and fatal symptoms. The constitution
of the ardent fevers that occurred was as
follows. At the beginning coma, nausea, shivering,
acute fever, no great thirst, no delirium, slight
epistaxis. The exacerbations in most cases on even
days, and about the time of the exacerbations there
was loss of memory with prostration and speechlessness.
The feet and hands of these patients were
always colder than usual, most especially about the
times of exacerbation. Slowly and in no healthy
manner they recovered their heat, becoming rational
again and conversing. Either the coma held them
continuously without sleep, or they were wakeful
and in pain. Bowels disordered in the majority of
these cases, with crude, thin, copious stools. Urine
copious, thin, with no critical or favourable sign, nor
did any other critical sign appear in these patients.
For there occurred neither favourable hemorrhage
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