Case 5
Charion, who was lodged at the house of Demaenetus, contracted
a fever from drinking. Immediately he had a painful heaviness of the
head; did not sleep; bowels disordered, with thin and somewhat bilious
discharges. On the third day, acute fever; trembling of the head,
but especially of the lower lip; after a little time a rigor, convulsions;
he was quite delirious; passed the night uncomfortably. On the fourth,
quiet, slept little, talked incoherently. On the fifth, in pain; all
the symptoms exacerbated; delirium; passed the night uncomfortably;
did not sleep. On the sixth, in the same state. On the seventh had
a rigor, acute fever, sweated all over his body; had a crisis. Throughout
the alvine discharges were bilious, scanty, and unmixed; urine thin,
well colored, having cloudy substances floating in it. About the eighth
day, passed urine of a better color, having a white scanty sediment;
was collected, free from fever for a season. On the ninth it relapsed.
About the fourteenth, acute fever. On the sixteenth, vomited pretty
frequently yellow, bilious matters. On the seventeenth had a rigor,
acute fever, sweated, free of fever; had a crisis; urine, after the
relapse and the crisis, well colored, having a sediment; neither was
he delirious in the relapse. On the eighteenth, became a little heated;
some thirst, urine thin, with cloudy substances floating in it; slight
wandering in his mind. About the nineteenth, free of fever, had
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pain in his neck; a sediment in the urine. Had a complete crisis on
the twentieth.
Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the patient was
cured in twenty days, by the abundance of bilious stools and urine.
