PART 8
VIII. Now the greatest number of these symptoms
continued to be protracted, troublesome, very disordered,
very irregular, and without any critical signs,
both in the case of those who came very near death
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and in the case of those who did not. For even if
some patients enjoyed slight intermissions, there
followed a quick relapse. A few of them experienced
a crisis, the earliest being about the eightieth day,
some of the latter having a relapse, so that most of
them were still ill in the winter. The greatest
number had no crisis before the disease terminated.
These symptoms occurred in those who recovered
just as much as in those who did not. The illnesses
showed a marked absence of crisis and a great variety ;
the most striking and the worst symptom, which
throughout attended the great majority, was a complete
loss of appetite, especially in those whose
general condition exhibited fatal signs, but in these
fevers they did not suffer much from unseasonable
thirst. After long intervals, with many pains and
with pernicious wasting, there supervened abscessions
either too severe to be endured, or too slight to be
beneficial, so that there was a speedy return of the
original symptoms, and an aggravation of the
mischief.
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