PART 3
Some were attacked with jaundice on the sixth day, but these were
benefited
[p. 108]either by an urinary purgation, or a disorder of the bowels,
or a copious hemorrhage, as in the case of Heraclides, who was lodged
with Aristocydes: this person, though he had the hemorrhage from the
nose, the purgation by the bladder, and disorder of the bowels, experienced
a favorable crisis on the twentieth day, not like the servant of Phanagoras,
who had none of these symptoms, and died. The hemorrhages attacked
most persons, but especially young persons and those in the prime
of life, and the greater part of those who had not the hemorrhage
died: elderly persons had jaundice or disorder of the bowels, such
as Bion, who was lodged with Silenus. Dysenteries were epidemical
during the summer, and some of those cases in which the hemorrhage
occurred, terminated in dysentery, as happened to the slave of Eraton,
and to Mullus, who had a copious hemorrhage, which settled down into
dysentery, and they recovered. This humor was redundant in many cases,
since in those who had not the hemorrhage about the crisis, but the
risings about the ears disappeared, after their disappearance there
was a sense of weight in the left flank extending to the extremity
of the hip, and pain setting in after the crisis, with a discharge
of thin urine; they began to have small hemorrhages about the twenty-fourth
day, and the swelling was converted into the hemorrhage. In the case
of Antiphon, the son of Critobulus' son, the fever ceased and came
to a crisis about the fortieth day.
