Book 1
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Eighth day. Cold sweat all over; red spots with sweat, round, small like acne, which persisted without subsiding. From the bowels with slight stimulus there came a copious discharge of solid stools, thin,I take λεπτός 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.
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Ninth day. Same symptoms.
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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.
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Eleventh day. Death.
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From the beginning the breath in this case was throughout rare and large. Continuous throbbing of the hypochondrium; age about twenty years.
CASE III
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Herophon had acute fever; scanty stools with tenesmus at the beginning, afterwards becoming thin, bilious and fairly frequent. No sleep; urine black and thin.
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Fifth day. Deafness early in the day; general exacerbation; spleen swollen; tension of the hypochondrium; scanty black stools; delirium.
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Sixth day. Wandering talk; at night sweat and chill ; the wandering persisted.
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Seventh Day. Chill all over; thirst; out of his mind. During the night he was rational, and slept.
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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.
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Ninth day. Sweat, crisis, intermission.
