PART 15
XV. Some had jaundice on the sixth day, but
these were benefited by either a purging through
the bladder or a disturbance of the bowels or a
copious hemorrhage, as was the case with Heraclides,
who lay sick at the house of Aristocydes.
This patient, however, who had a crisis on the
twentieth day, not only bled from the nose, but also
experienced disturbance of the bowels and a purging
through the bladder. Far otherwise was it with the
servant of Phanagoras, who had none of these
symptoms, and died. But the great majority had
hemorrhage, especially youths and those in the
prime of life, and of these the great majority who
had no hemorrhage died. Older people had jaundice
or disordered bowels, for example Bion, who lay
sick at the house of Silenus. Dysenteries also were
general in summer, and some too of those who had
fallen ill, and also suffered from hemorrhage, finally
had dysentery ; for example, the slave of Erato and
Myllus, after copious hemorrhage, lapsed into dysentery.
They recovered.
This humour,
1 then, especially was in great
abundance,
since even those who had no hemorrhage
near the crisis, but swellings by the ears which
disappeared--and after their disappearance there
was a heaviness along the left flank up to the extremity
of the hip--after the crisis had pain and
passed thin urine, and then began to suffer slight
hemorrhage about the twenty-fourth day, and
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abscessions into hemorrhage occurred. In the case
of Antipho, son of Critobulus, the illness ceased and
came to a complete crisis about the fortieth day.
