PART 3
The most of these were protracted and troublesome, went on in a
very disorderly and irregular form, and, for the most part, did in
a crisis, either in the fatal cases or in the others; for if it left
some of them for a season it soon returned again. In a few instances
the lever terminated with a crisis;
[p. 105] in the earliest of these about
the eightieth day, and some of these relapsed, so that most of them
were not free from the fever during the winter; but the fever left
most of them without a crisis, and these things happened alike to
those who recovered and to those who did not. There being much want
of crisis and much variety as to these diseases, the greatest and
worst symptom attended the most of them, namely, a loathing of all
articles of food, more especially with those who had otherwise fatal
symptoms; but they were not unseasonably thirsty in such fevers. After
a length of time, with much suffering and great wasting, abscesses
were formed in these cases, either unusually large, so that the patients
could not support them, or unusually small, so that they did no good,
but soon relapsed and speedily got worse. The diseases which attacked
them were in the form of dysenteries, tenesmus, lientery, and fluxes;
but, in some cases, there were dropsies, with or without these complaints.
Whatever attacked them violently speedily cut them off, or again,
did them no good. Small rashes, and not corresponding to the violence
of the disease, and quickly disappearing, or swellings occurred about
the ears, which were not resolved, and brought on no crisis. In some
they were determined to the joints, and especially to the hip-joint,
terminating critically with a few, and quickly again increasing to
its original habit.
