PART 4
Many women were attacked, but fewer than of the men, and there were
fewer deaths among them. But most of them had difficult parturition,
and after labor they were taken ill, and these most especially died,
as, for example, the daughter of Telebolus died on the sixth day after
delivery. Most females had the menstrual discharge during the fever,
and many girls had it then for the first time: in certain individuals
both the hemorrhage from the nose and the menses appeared; thus, in
the case of the virgin daughter of Daetharses, the menses then took
place for the first time, and she had also a copinous hemorrhage from
the nose, and I knew no instance of any one dying when one or other
of these took place properly. But all those in the pregnant state
that were attacked had abortions, as far as I observed. The urine
in most cases was of the proper color, but thin, and having scanty
sediments: in
[p. 109]most the bowels were disordered with thin and bilious
dejections; and many, after passing through the other crises, terminated
in dysenteries, as happened to Xenophanes and Critias. The urine was
watery, copious, clear, and thin; and even after the crises, when
the sediment was natural, and all the other critical symptoms were
favorable, as I recollect having happened to Bion, who was lodged
in the house of Silenus, and Critias, who lived with Xenophanes, the
slave of Areton, and the wife of Mnesistratus. But afterwards all
these were attacked with dysentery. It would be worth while to inquire
whether the watery urine was the cause of this. About the season of
Arcturus many had the crisis on the eleventh day, and in them the
regular relapses did not take place, but they became comatose about
this time, especially children; but there were fewest deaths of all
among them.
