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Ἐπιδημίων

Ἐπιδημίων Hippocrates

Book 1

11 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.
11 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.
11 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.

CASE XII

12 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 partSee note, p. 188.; an uncomfortable night; urine at the first thick and red; on standing it did not settle; tongue dry; no great thirst.
12 Fourth day. Acute fever; pains all over.
12 Fifth day. Passed much smooth, oily urine; acute fever.
12 Sixth day. In the afternoon much delirium. No sleep at night.
12 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.
12 Ninth day. Chill; much wandering; no sleep.
12 Tenth day. Legs painful; general exacerbation; wandering.
12 Eleventh day. Death.

CASE XIII

13 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.

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