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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.
CASE XIV
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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.
CASE XV
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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,I take this, in apite of Galen, to mean with extra long intervals between each breath. The phrase is rather care-less but scarcely tautological. At intervals or after a long interval are possible meanings, but inconsistent with διὰ τέλεος later on. 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.
