Case 11
In Thasus, a woman, of a melancholic turn of mind, from some
accidental cause of sorrow, while still going about, became affected
with loss of sleep, aversion to food, and had thirst and nausea. She
lived near the Pylates, upon the Plain. On the first, at the commencement
of night, frights, much
[p. 142]talking, despondency, slight fever; in the
morning, frequent spasms, and when they ceased, she was incoherent
and talked obscurely; pains frequent, great and continued. On the
second, in the same state; had no sleep; fever more acute. On the
third, the spasms left her; but coma, and disposition to sleep, and
again awaked, started up, and could not contain herself; much incoherence;
acute fever; on that night a copious sweat all over; apyrexia, slept,
quite collected; had a crisis. About the third day, the urine black,
thin, substances floating in it generally round, did not fall to the
bottom; about the crisis a copious menstruation.