Epidemics I and III

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1.4.8.6
Fifth day. Early in the morning was composed, and in complete possession of his senses. But long before mid-day was madly delirious; could not restrain himself; extremities cold and rather livid; urine suppressed; died about sunset.
1.4.8.7
In this patient the fever was throughout accompanied by sweat; the hypochondria were swollen, distended and painful. Urine black, with round, suspended particles which did not settle. There were solid discharges from the bowels. Thirst throughout not very great. Many convulsions with sweating about the time of death.
1.4.9.1
Crito, in Thasos, while walking about, was seized with a violent pain in the great toe. He took to bed the same day with shivering and nausea; regained a little warmth; at night was delirious.
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Second day. Swelling of the whole foot, which was rather red about the ankle, and distended; black blisters; acute fever ; mad delirium. Alvine discharges unmixed, bilious and rather frequent. He died on the second day from the commencement.
1.4.10.1
The man of Clazomenae, who lay sick by the well of Phrynichides, was seized with fever. Pain at the beginning in head, neck and loins, followed immediately by deafness. No sleep; seized with acute fever; hypochondrium swollen, but not very much; distension; tongue dry.
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Fourth day. Delirium at night.
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Fifth day. Painful.
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Sixth day. All symptoms exacerbated.
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About the eleventh day slight improvement. From the beginning to the fourteenth day there were from the bowels thin discharges, copious, of a watery biliousness; they were well supported by the patient. Then the bowels were constipated. Urine throughout thin, but of good colour. It had much cloud spread through it, which did not settle in a sediment. About the sixteenth day the urine was a little thicker, and had a slight sediment.
1.4.10.6
The patient became a little easier, and was more rational.
1.4.10.7
Seventeenth day. Urine thin again; painful swellings by both ears. No sleep; wandering; pain in the legs.
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Twentieth day. A crisis left the patient free from fever; no sweating; quite rational. About the twenty-seventh day violent pain in the right hip, which quickly ceased. The swellings by the ears neither subsided nor suppurated, but continued painful. About the thirty-first day diarrhéa with copious, watery discharges and signs of dysentery. Urine thick; the swellings by the ears subsided.
1.4.10.9
Fortieth day. Pain in the right eye; sight rather impaired; recovery.
1.4.11.1
The wife of Dromeades, after giving birth to a daughter, when everything had gone normally, on the second day was seized with rigor; acute fever. On the first day she began to feel pain in the region of the hypochondrium; nausea; shivering; restless; and on the following days did not sleep. Respiration rare, large, interrupted at once as by an inspiration.
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Second day from rigor. Healthy action of the bowels. Urine thick, white, turbid, like urine which has settled, stood a long time, and then been stirred up. It did not settle. No sleep at night.
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Third day. At about mid-day rigor; acute fever; urine similar; pain in the hypochondrium; nausea; an uncomfortable night without sleep; a cold sweat all over the body, but the patient quickly recovered heat.
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Fourth day. Slight relief of the pains about the hypochondrium; painful heaviness of the head; somewhat comatose; slight epistaxis; tongue dry; thirst; scanty urine, thin and oily; snatches of sleep.
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Fifth day. Thirst; nausea; urine similar; no movement of the bowels; about mid-day much delirium, followed quickly by lucid intervals; rose, but grew somewhat comatose; slight chilliness; slept at night; was delirious.
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Sixth day. In the morning had a rigor; quickly recovered heat; sweated all over; extremities cold; was delirious; respiration large and rare. After a while convulsions began from the head, quickly followed by death.
1.4.12.1
A man dined when hot and drank too much. During the night he vomited everything; acute fever; pain in the right hypochondrium; inflammation, soft underneath, from the inner part; an uncomfortable night; urine at the first thick and red; on standing it did not settle; tongue dry; no great thirst.
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Fourth day. Acute fever; pains all over.
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Fifth day. Passed much smooth, oily urine; acute fever.
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Sixth day. In the afternoon much delirium. No sleep at night.
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Seventh day. General exacerbation; urine similar; much rambling; could not restrain himself; on stimulation the bowels passed watery, disturbed discharges, with worms. An uncomfortable night, with rigor in the morning. Acute fever. Hot sweat, and the patient seemed to lose his fever; little sleep, followed by chilliness; expectoration. In the evening much delirium, and shortly afterwards he vomited black, scanty, bilious vomits.
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Ninth day. Chill; much wandering; no sleep.
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Tenth day. Legs painful; general exacerbation; wandering.
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Eleventh day. Death.
1.4.13.1
A woman lying sick by the shore, who was three months gone with child, was seized with fever, and immediately began to feel pains in the loins.
1.4.13.2
Third day. Pain in the neck and in the head, and in the region of the right collar-bone. Quickly she lost her power of speech, the right arm was paralyzed, with a convulsion, after the manner of a stroke; completely delirious. An uncomfortable night, without sleep; bowels disordered with bilious, unmixed, scanty stools.
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Fourth day. Her speech was recovered, but was indistinct; convulsions; pains of the same parts remained; painful swelling in the hypochondrium; no sleep; utter delirium; bowels disordered; urine thin, and not of good colour.
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Fifth day. Acute fever; pain in the hypochondrium; utter delirium; bilious stools. At night sweated; was without fever.
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Sixth day. Rational; general relief, but pain remained about the left collar-bone; thirst; urine thin; no sleep.
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Seventh day. Trembling; some coma; slight delirium ; pains in the region of the collar-bone and left upper arm remained; other symptoms relieved; quite rational. For three days there was an intermission of fever.
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Eleventh day. Relapse; rigor; attack of fever. But about the fourteenth day the patient vomited bilious, yellow matter fairly frequently; sweated; a crisis took off the fever.
1.4.14.1
Melidia, who lay sick by the temple of Hera, began to suffer violent pain in the head, neck and chest. Immediately she was attacked by acute fever, and there followed a slight menstrual flow. There were continuous pains in all these parts.
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Sixth day. Coma; nausea; shivering; flushed cheeks; slight delirium.
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Seventh day. Sweat; intermittence of fever; the pains persisted; relapse; snatches of sleep; urine throughout of good colour but thin; stools thin, bilious, irritating, scanty, black and of bad odour; sediment in the urine white and smooth; sweating.
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Eleventh day. Perfect crisis.
3.1.1.1
Pythion, who lived by the temple of Earth, was seized with trembling which began in the hands.
3.1.1.2
First day. Acute fever; wandering.
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Second day. General exacerbation.
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Third day. Same symptoms.
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Fourth day. Stools scanty, uncompounded and bilious.
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Fifth day. General exacerbation; fitful sleep; constipation.
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Sixth day. Varied, reddish sputa.
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Seventh day. Mouth drawn awry.
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Eighth day. General exacerbation; tremblings persisted; urine from the beginning to the eighth day thin, colourless, with a cloudy substance floating in it.
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Tenth day. Sweat; sputa somewhat concocted; crisis ; urine somewhat thin about the time of the crisis. After the crisis, forty days subsequent to it, abscess in the seat, and an abscession through strangury.
3.1.2.1
Hermocrates, who lay sick by the new wall, was seized with fever. He began to feel pain in the head and loins; tension of the hypochondrium without swelling; tongue at the beginning parched; deafness at once; no sleep; no great thirst; urine thick, red, with no sediment on standing; stools not scanty, and burnt.
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Fifth day. Urine thin, with particles floating in it, without sediment; at night delirium.
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Sixth day. Jaundice; general exacerbation; not rational.
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Seventh day. Discomfort; urine thin, and as before. The following days similar. About the eleventh day there seemed to be general relief; coma began; urine thicker, reddish, thin at the bottom, without sediment; by degrees grew more rational.
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Fourteenth day. No fever; no sweat; sleep; reason quite recovered; urine as before.
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About the seventeenth day there was a relapse, and the patient grew hot. On the following days there was acute fever; urine thin; delirium.
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Twentieth day. A fresh crisis; no fever; no sweat. All the time the patient had no appetite; was perfectly collected but could not talk; tongue dry; no thirst; snatches of sleep; coma. About the twenty-fourth day he grew hot; bowels loose with copious, thin discharges. On the following days acute fever; tongue parched.
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Twenty-seventh day. Death.
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In this case deafness persisted throughout; urine thick, red, without settling, or thin, colourless, with substances floating in it. The patient had no power to take food.
3.1.3.1
The man lying sick in the garden of Delearces had for a long time heaviness in the head and pain in the right temple. From some exciting cause he was seized with fever, and took to his bed.
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Second day. Slight flow of unmixed blood from the left nostril. The bowels were well moved; urine thin and varied, with particles in small groups, like barley-meal or semen, floating in it.
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Third day. Acute fever; stools black, thin, frothy, with a livid sediment in them; slight stupor; getting up caused distress; in the urine a livid, rather viscous sediment.
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Fourth day. Vomited scanty, bilious, yellow vomits, and after a short interval, verdigris-coloured ones; slight flow of unmixed blood from the left nostril; stools unaltered and urine unaltered; sweat about the head and collar-bones; spleen enlarged; pain in the direction of the thigh; tension, soft under-neath, of the right hypochondrium; no sleep at night; slight delirium.
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Fifth day. Stools more copious, black, frothy; a black sediment in the stools; no sleep at night; delirium.
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Sixth day. Stools black, oily, viscid, foul-smelling ; slept; was more rational.
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Seventh day. Tongue dry; thirsty; no sleep; delirium; urine thin, not of a good colour.
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Eighth day. Stools black, scanty, compact; sleep; was collected; not very thirsty.
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Ninth day. Rigor, acute fever; sweat; chill; delirium; squinting of the right eye; tongue dry; thirsty; sleepless.
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Tenth day. Symptoms about the same.
3.1.3.11
Eleventh day. Quite rational; no fever; slept, urine thin about the time of the crisis.
3.1.3.12
The patient remained free from fever for two days, relapsed on the fourteenth day, and immediately had no sleep at night and was completely delirious.
3.1.3.13
Fifteenth day. Urine muddy, like that which has been stirred up after settling; acute fever; completely delirious; no sleep; pain in knees and legs. On the application of a suppository, black, solid motions were passed.
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Sixteenth day. Urine thin, with a cloudy substance floating in it; delirium.
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Seventeenth day. Extremities cold in the early morning; would wrap himself up; acute fever; sweated all over; was relieved; more rational; some fever; thirst; vomited bilious matters, yellow and scanty; solid motions from the bowels; after a while they became black, scanty and thin; urine thin, and not of a good colour.
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Eighteenth day. Was not rational; comatose.
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Nineteenth day. The same symptoms.
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Twentieth day. Slept; completely rational; sweated ; no fever; no thirst; urine thin.
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Twenty-first day. Slightly delirious; rather thirsty; pain in the hypochondrium and throbbing about the navel continuously.
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Twenty-fourth day. Sediment in urine; completely rational.
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Twenty-seventh day. Pain in the right hip, but in other respects very comfortable; sediment in the urine.
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About the twenty-ninth day pain in the right eye; urine thin.
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Fortieth day. Passed motions full of phlegm, white and rather frequent; copious sweat all over; a perfect crisis.
3.1.4.1
Philistes in Thasos had for a long time pain in the head, and at last fell into a state of stupor and took to his bed. Heavy drinking having caused continuous fevers the pain grew worse. At night he grew hot at the first.
3.1.4.2
First day. Vomited bilious matters, scanty, at first yellow, afterwards increasing and of the colour of verdigris; solid motions from the bowels; an uncomfortable night.
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Second day. Deafness; acute fever; tension of the right hypochondrium, which fell inwards. Urine thin, transparent, with a small quantity of substance, like semen, floating in it. About mid-day became raving.
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Third day. Uncomfortable.
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Fourth day. Convulsions; exacerbation.
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Fifth day. Died early in the morning.
3.1.5.1
Chaerion, who lay sick in the house of Demaenetus, was seized with fever after drinking. At once there was painful heaviness of the head; no sleep; bowels disturbed with thin, rather bilious stools.
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Third day. Acute fever, trembling of the head, particularly of the lower lip; after a while rigor, convulsions, complete delirium; an uncomfortable night.
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Fourth day. Quiet; snatches of sleep; wandering.
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Fifth day. Pain; general exacerbation; irrational talk; uncomfortable night; no sleep.
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Sixth day. The same symptoms.
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Seventh day. Rigor; acute fever; sweating all over ; crisis.
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This patient’s stools were throughout bilious, scanty and uncompounded. Urine thin, not of a good colour, with a cloudy substance floating in it. About the eighth day the urine had a better colour, with a slight, white sediment; quite rational and no fever; an intermission.
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Ninth day. Relapse.
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About the fourteenth day acute fever.
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Sixteenth day. Vomited bilious, yellow matters rather frequently.
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Seventeenth day. Rigor; acute fever; sweating; crisis ended the fever.
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Urine after relapse and crisis of a good colour, with a sediment; no delirium during the relapse.
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Eighteenth day. Slight heat; rather thirsty; urine thin, with cloudy substance floating in it; slight delirium.
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Nineteenth day. No fever; pain in the neck; sediment in urine.

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