PART 3
In the course of the summer and autumn many fevers of the
[p. 102]continual
type, but not violent; they attacked persons who had been long indisposed,
but who were otherwise not in an uncomfortable state. In most cases
the bowels were disordered in a very moderate degree, and they did
not suffer thereby in any manner worth mentioning; the urine was generally
well colored, clear, thin, and after a time becoming concocted near
the crisis. They had not much cough, nor it troublesome; they were
not in appetite, for it was necessary to give them food (on the whole,
persons laboring under phthisis were not affected in the usual manner).
They were affected with fevers, rigors, and deficient sweats, with
varied and irregular paroxysms, in general not intermitting, but having
exacerbations in the tertian form. The earliest crisis which occurred
was about the twentieth day, in most about the fortieth, and in many
about the eightieth. But there were cases in which it did not leave
them thus at all, but in an irregular manner, and without any crisis;
in most of these the fevers, after a brief interval, relapsed again;
and from these relapses they came to a crisis in the same periods;
but in many they were prolonged so that the disease was not gone at
the approach of winter. Of all those which are described under this
constitution, the phthisical diseases alone were of a fatal character;
for in all the others the patients bore up well, and did not die of
the other fevers.
