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CASE I
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PythionThe third book of the Epidemics has always been regarded as a continuation of the first book. Even a casual glance will convince any reader that the two books are really one work. The Paris manuscript called A, which breaks off after the opening words of Epidemics III, nevertheless joins these words without interruption to the end of the first book., who lived by the temple of Earth, was seized with trembling which began in the hands.
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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.
CASE II
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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 swellingBut see note on p. 188.; 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, thinGalen says that the meaning of λεπτὰ is here small, i. e. he thinks that there wore small particles at the bottom. Such is not the meaning of the word in Hippocrates when applied to urine. at the bottom, without sediment; by degrees grew more rational.
