PART 4
Perons died of all these diseases, but mostly of these fevers,
and notably infants just weaned, and older children, until eight or
ten years of age, and those before puberty. These things occurred
to those affected with the complaints described above, and to many
persons at first without them. The only favorable symptom, and the
greatest of those which occurred, and what saved most of those who
were in the greatest dangers, was the conversion of it to a strangury,
and when, in addition to this, abscesses were formed. The strangury
attacked, most especially, persons of the ages I have mentioned, but
it also occurred in many others, both of those who were not confined
to bed and those who were. There was a speedy and great change in
all these cases. For the bowels, if they happened previously to have
watery discharges of a bad character, became regular, they got an
appetite for food, and the
[p. 106]fevers were mild afterwards. But, with
regard to the strangury itself, the symptoms were protracted and painful.
Their urine was copious, thick, of various characters, red, mixed
with pus, and was passed with pain. These all recovered, and I did
not see a single instance of death among them.