Case 11
The wife of Dromeades having been delivered of a female child,
and all other matters going on properly, on the second day after was
seized with rigor and acute fever. Began to have pain about the hypochondrium
on the first day; had nausea and incoherence, and for some hours afterwards
had no sleep; respiration rare, large, and suddenly interrupted. On
the day following that on which she had the rigor, alvine discharges
proper; urine thick, white, muddy, like urine which has been shaken
after standing for some time, until the sediment had fallen to the
bottom; it had no sediment; she did not sleep during the night. On
the third day, about noon, had a rigor, acute fever; urine the same;
pain of the hypochondria, nausea, an uncomfortable night, no sleep;
a coldish sweat all over, but heat quickly restored. On the fourth,
slight alleviation of the symptoms about the hypochondria; heaviness
of the head, with pain; somewhat comatose; slight epistaxis, tongue
dry, thirst, urine thin and oily; slept a little, upon awaking was
somewhat comatose; slight coldness, slept during the night, was delirious.
On the morning of the sixth had a rigor, but soon recovered her heat,
sweated all over; extremities cold, was delirious, respiration rare
and large. Shortly afterwards spasms from the head began, and she
immediately expired.