CASE IX
In Abdera Heropythus had pain in the head
without taking to bed, but shortly afterwards was
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compelled to do so. He lived close to the Upper
Road.
1 An acute,
ardent fever seized him. Vomited
at the beginning copious, bilious matters ; thirst ;
great discomfort ; urine thin and black, sometimes
with, sometimes without, substances suspended in
it. Painful night, with fever rising now in this
way, now in that, but for the most part irregularly.
About the fourteenth day, deafness ; the fever grew
worse ; urine the same.
Twentieth day. Much delirium, also on the
following days.
Fortieth day. Copious epistaxis ; more rational ;
some deafness, but less than before ; the fever went
down. Frequent, but slight, epistaxis on the
following days. About the sixtieth day the bleedings
from the nose ceased, but there was violent pain
in the right hip and the fever increased. Not long
afterwards, pains in all the lower parts. It happened
that either the fever was higher and the deafness
great, or else, though these symptoms were relieved
and less severe, yet the pains in the lower parts
about the hips grew worse. But from about the
eightieth day all the symptoms were relieved without
any disappearing. The urine that was passed
was of good colour and had greater deposits, while
the delirious mutterings were less. About the hundredth
day the bowels were disordered with copious,
bilious stools, and copious evacuations of this nature
were passed for a long time. Then followed painful
symptoms of dysentery, with relief of the other
symptoms. In brief, the fever disappeared and the
deafness ceased.
Hundred and twentieth day. Complete crisis.
