PART 6
Swellings about the ears, with pain in fevers, sometimes when
the fever went off critically, neither subsided nor were converted
into pus; in these cases a bilious diarrhoea, or dysentery, or thick
urine having a sediment, carried off the disease, as happened to Hermippus
of Clazomenae. The circumstances relating to crises, as far as we
can recognize them, were so far similar and so far dissimilar. Thus
two brothers became ill at the same hour (they were brothers of Epigenes,
and lodged near the theatre), of these the elder had a crisis on the
sixth day, and the younger on the seventh,
[p. 111]and both had a relapse
at the same hour; it then left them for five days, and from the return
of the fever both had a crisis together on the seventeenth day. Most
had a crisis on the sixth day; it then left them for six days, and
from the relapse there was a crisis on the fifth day. But those who
had a crisis on the seventh day, had an intermission for seven days;
and the crisis took place on the third day after the relapse. Those
who had a crisis on the sixth day, after an interval of six days were
seized again on the third, and having left them for one day, the fever
attacked them again on the next and came to a crisis, as happened
to Evagon the son of Daetharses. Those in whom the crisis happened
on the sixth day, had an intermission of seven days, and from the
relapse there was a crisis on the fourth, as happened to the daughter
of Aglaidas. The greater part of those who were taken ill under this
constitution of things, were affected in this manner, and I did not
know a single case of recovery, in which there was not a relapse agreeably
to the stated order of relapses; and all those recovered in which
the relapses took place according to this form: nor did I know a single
instance of those who then passed through the disease in this manner
who had another relapse.
