Epidemics I and III

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First day. Acute fever of the ardent type; the patient was quiet, but the pains persisted.
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Second day. The pains in the thigh subsided, but the fever grew worse; the patient was rather uncomfortable and did not sleep; extremities cold; copious and unfavourable urine was passed.
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Third day. The pain in the thigh ceased, but there was derangement of the intellect, with distress and much tossing.
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Fourth day. Death about mid-day.
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In Abdera Pericles was seized with acute fever, continuous and painful; much thirst; nausea; could not retain what he drank. There was slight enlargement of the spleen and heaviness in the head.
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First day. Epistaxis from the left nostril; the fever, however, increased greatly. Copious urine, turbid and white. On standing it did not settle.
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Second day. General exacerbation; the urine, however, had consistency, but there was some sediment; the nausea was relieved and the patient slept.
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Third day. The fever went down; abundance of urine, with concocted and copious sediment; a quiet night.
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Fourth day. About mid-day a hot, violent sweating all over; no fever; crisis; no relapse.
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In Abdera the maiden who lay sick by the Sacred Way was seized with a fever of the ardent type. She was thirsty and sleepless. Menstruation occurred for the first time.
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Sixth day. Much nausea; redness; shivering; restlessness.
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Seventh day. Same symptoms. Urine thin but of good colour; no trouble in the bowels.
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Eighth day. Deafness; acute fever; sleeplessness; nausea; shivering; was rational; urine similar.
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Ninth day Same symptoms, and also on the following days. The deafness persisted.
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Fourteenth day. Reason disturbed; the fever subsided.
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Seventeenth day. Copious epistaxis; the deafness improved a little. On the following days nausea and deafness, while there was also delirium.
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Twentieth day. Pain in the feet; deafness; the delirium ceased; slight epistaxis; sweating; no fever.
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Twenty-fourth day. The fever returned, with the deafness; pain in the feet persisted; delirium.
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Twenty-seventh day. Copious sweating; no fever; the deafness ceased; the pain in the feet remained, but in other respects there was a perfect crisis.
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In Abdera Anaxion, who lay sick by the Thracian gate, was seized with acute fever. Continuous pain in the right side; a dry cough, with no sputa on the first days. Thirst ; sleeplessness; urine of good colour, copious and thin.
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Sixth day. Delirium; warm applications gave no relief.
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Seventh day. In pain, for the fever grew worse and the pains were not relieved, while the coughing was troublesome and there was difficulty in breathing.
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Eighth day. I bled him in the arm. There was an abundant, proper flow of blood; the pains were relieved, although the dry coughing persisted.
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Eleventh day. The fever went down; slight sweating about the head; the coughing and the sputa more moist.
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Seventeenth day. Began to expectorate small, concocted sputa; was relieved.
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Twentieth day. Sweated and was free from fever; after a crisis was thirsty, and the cleansings from the lungs were not favourable.
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Twenty-seventh day. The fever returned; coughing, with copious, concocted sputa; copious, white sediment in urine; thirst and difficulty in breathing disappeared.
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Thirty-fourth day. Sweated all over; no fever; general crisis.
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In Abdera Heropythus had pain in the head without taking to bed, but shortly afterwards was compelled to do so. He lived close to the Upper Road. An acute, ardent fever seized him. Vomited at the beginning copious, bilious matters; thirst; great discomfort; urine thin and black, sometimes with, sometimes without, substances suspended in it. Painful night, with fever rising now in this way, now in that, but for the most part irregularly. About the fourteenth day, deafness; the fever grew worse; urine the same.
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Twentieth day. Much delirium, also on the following days.
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Fortieth day. Copious epistaxis; more rational; some deafness, but less than before; the fever went down. Frequent, but slight, epistaxis on the following days. About the sixtieth day the bleedings from the nose ceased, but there was violent pain in the right hip and the fever increased. Not long afterwards, pains in all the lower parts. It happened that either the fever was higher and the deafness great, or else, though these symptoms were relieved and less severe, yet the pains in the lower parts about the hips grew worse. But from about the eightieth day all the symptoms were relieved without any disappearing. The urine that was passed was of good colour and had greater deposits, while the delirious mutterings were less. About the hundredth day the bowels were disordered with copious, bilious stools, and copious evacuations of this nature were passed for a long time. Then followed painful symptoms of dysentery, with relief of the other symptoms. In brief, the fever disappeared and the deafness ceased.
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Hundred and twentieth day. Complete crisis.
3.3.10.1
In Abdera Nicodemus after venery and drunkenness was seized with fever. At the beginning he had nausea and cardialgia; thirst; tongue parched ; urine thin and black.
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Second day. The fever increased; shivering; nausea ; no sleep; bilious, yellow vomits; urine the same; a quiet night; sleep.
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Third day. All symptoms less severe; relief. But about sunset he was again somewhat uncomfortable; painful night.
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Fourth day. Rigor; much fever; pains every-where; urine thin, with floating substance in it; the night, on the other hand, was quiet.
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Fifth day. All symptoms present, but relieved.
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Sixth day. Same pains everywhere; substance floating in urine; much delirium.
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Seventh day. Relief.
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Eighth day. All the other symptoms less severe.
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Tenth day and following days. The pains were present, but all less severe. The exacerbations and the pains in the case of this patient tended through-out to occur on the even days.
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Twentieth day. Urine white, having consistency; no sediment on standing. Copious sweating; seemed to lose his fever, but towards evening grew hot again, with pains in the same parts; shivering ; thirst; slight delirium.
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Twenty-fourth day. Much white urine, with much sediment. Hot sweating all over; the fever passed away in a crisis.
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In Thasos a woman of gloomy temperament, after a grief with a reason for it, without taking to bed lost sleep and appetite, and suffered thirst and nausea. She lived near the place of Pylades on the plain.
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First day. As night began there were fears, much rambling, depression and slight feverishness. Early in the morning frequent convulsions; whenever these frequent convulsions intermitted, she wandered and uttered obscenities; many pains, severe and continuous.
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Second day. Same symptoms; no sleep; fever more acute.
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Third day. The convulsions ceased, but were succeeded by coma and oppression, followed in turn by wakefulness. She would jump up; could not restrain herself; wandered a great deal; fever acute; on this night a copious, hot sweating all over; no fever ; slept, was perfectly rational, and had a crisis. About the third day urine black and thin, with particles mostly round floating in it, which did not settle. Near the crisis copious menstruation.
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In Larisa a maiden was seized with an acute fever of the ardent type. Sleeplessness; thirst; tongue sooty and parched; urine of good colour, but thin.
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Second day. In pain; no sleep.
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Third day. Copious stools, watery and of a yellowish green; similar stools on the following days, passed without distress.
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Fourth day. Scanty, thin urine, with a substance suspended in it which did not settle; delirium at night.
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Sixth day. Violent and abundant epistaxis; after a shivering fit followed a hot, copious sweating all over; no fever; a crisis. In the fever and after the crisis menstruation for the first time, for she was a young maiden. Throughout she suffered nausea and shivering; redness of the face; pain in the eyes; heaviness in the head. In this case there was no relapse, but a definite crisis. The pains on the even days.
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Apollonius in Abdera was ailing for a long time without being confined to bed. He had a swollen abdomen, and a continual pain in the region of the liver had been present for a long time; moreover, he became during this period jaundiced and flatulent; his complexion was whitish. After dining and drinking unseasonably cow’s milk he at first grew rather hot; he took to his bed. Having drunk copiously of milk, boiled and raw, both goat’s and sheep’s, and adopting a thoroughly bad regimen, he suffered much therefrom. For there were exacerbations of the fever; the bowels passed practically nothing of the food taken; the urine was thin and scanty. No sleep. Grievous distension; much thirst; coma; painful swelling of the right hypochondrium; extremities all round rather cold; slight delirious mutterings; forgetfulness of every-thing he said; he was not himself. About the fourteenth day from his taking to bed, after a rigor, he grew hot; wildly delirious; shouting, distress, much rambling, followed by calm; the coma came on at this time. Afterwards the bowels were disordered with copious stools, bilious, uncompounded and crude; urine black, scanty and thin. Great discomfort. The evacuations showed varying symptoms; they were either black, scanty and verdigris-coloured, or else greasy, crude and smarting ; at times they seemed actually to be like milk. About the twenty-fourth day comfortable; in other respects the same, but he had lucid intervals. He remembered nothing since he took to bed. But he quickly was again delirious, and all symptoms took a sharp turn for the worse. About the thirtieth day acute fever; copious, thin stools; wandering; cold extremities; speechlessness.
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Thirty-fourth day. Death.
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This patient throughout, from the time I had knowledge of the case, suffered from disordered bowels; urine thin and black; coma; sleeplessness; extremities cold; delirious throughout.
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In Cyzicus a woman gave birth with difficult labour to twin daughters, and the lochial discharge was far from good.
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First day. Acute fever with shivering; painful heaviness of head and neck. Sleepless from the first, but silent, sulky and refractory. Urine thin and of no colour; thirsty; nausea generally ; bowels irregularly disturbed with constipation following.
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Sixth day. Much wandering at night; no sleep.
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About the eleventh day she went out of her mind and then was rational again; urine black, thin, and then, after an interval, oily; copious, thin, disordered stools.
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Fourteenth day. Many convulsions; extremities cold ; no further recovery of reason; urine suppressed.
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Sixteenth day. Speechless.
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Seventeenth day. Death.
3.3.15.1
In Thasos the wife of Delearces, who lay sick on the plain, was seized after a grief with an acute fever with shivering. From the beginning she would wrap herself up, and throughout, without speaking a word, she would fumble, pluck, scratch, pick hairs, weep and then laugh, but she did not sleep; though stimulated, the bowels passed nothing. She drank a little when the attendants suggested it. Urine thin and scanty; fever slight to the touch; coldness of the extremities.
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Ninth day. Much wandering followed by return of reason; silent.
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Fourteenth day. Respiration rare and large with long intervals, becoming afterwards short.
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Seventeenth day. Bowels under a stimulus passed disordered matters, then her very drink passed unchanged; nothing coagulated. The patient noticed nothing; the skin tense and dry.
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Twentieth day. Much rambling followed by recovery of reason; speechless; respiration short.
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Twenty-first day. Death.
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The respiration of this patient throughout was rare and large; took no notice of anything; she constantly wrapped herself up; either much rambling or silence throughout.
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In Meliboea a youth took to his bed after being for a long time heated by drunkenness and sexual indulgence. He had shivering fits, nausea, sleeplessness, but no thirst.
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First day. Copious, solid stools passed in abundance of fluid, and on the following days the excreta were copious, watery and of a greenish yellow. Urine thin, scanty and of no colour; respiration rare and large with long intervals; tension, soft underneath, of the hypochondrium, extending out to either side; continual throbbing throughout of the epigastrium; urine oily.
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Tenth day. Delirious but quiet, for he was orderly and silent; skin dry and tense; stools either copious and thin or bilious and greasy.
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Fourteenth day. General exacerbation; delirious with much wandering talk.
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Twentieth day. Wildly out of his mind; much tossing ; urine suppressed; slight quantities of drink were retained.
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Twenty-fourth day. Death.

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