Case 4
In Thasus, the wife of Philinus, having been delivered of
a daughter, the discharge being natural, and other matters going on
mildly, on the fourteenth day after delivery was seized with fever,
attended with rigor; was pained at first in the cardiac region of
the stomach and right hypochondrium; pain in the genital organs; lochial
discharge ceased. Upon the application of a pessary all these symptoms
were alleviated; pains of the head, neck, and loins remained; no sleep;
extremities cold; thirst; bowels in a hot state; stools scanty; urine
thin, and colorless at first. On the sixth, towards night, senses
much disordered, but again were restored. On the seventh, thirsty;
the evacuations bilious, and high colored. On the eighth, had a rigor;
acute fever; much spasm, with pain; talked much, incoherently; upon
the application of a suppository, rose to stool, and passed copious
dejections, with a bilious flux; no sleep. On the ninth, spasms. On
the tenth, slightly recollected. On the eleventh, slept; had perfect
recollection, but again immediately wandered; passed a large quantity
of urine with spasms, (the attendants seldom putting her in mind),
it was thick, white, like urine which has been shaken after it has
stood for a considerable time until it has subsided, but it had no
sediment; in color and consistence, the urine resembled that of cattle,
as far as I observed. About the fourteenth day, startings over the
whole body; talked much; slightly collected, but presently became
again delirious. About the seventeenth day became speechless, on the
twentieth died.
