PART 2
All the fevers which are described attacked great numbers. The ardent fevers
attacked the smallest numbers, and the patients suffered the least
from them, for there were no hemorrhages, except a few and to a small
amount, nor was there delirium; all the other complaints were slight;
in these the crises were regular, in most instances, with the intermittents,
in seventeen days; and I know no instance of a person dying of causus,
nor becoming phrenitic. The tertians were more numerous than the ardent
fevers, and attended with more pain; but these all had four periods
in regular succession from the first attack, and they had a complete
crisis in seven, without a relapse in any instance. The quartans attacked
many at first, in the form of regular quartans, but in no few cases
a transition from other fevers and diseases into quartans took place;
they were
[p. 104] protracted, as is wont with them, indeed, more so than usual. Quotidian, nocturnal, and wandering fevers attacked many persons,
some of whom continued to keep up, and others were confined to bed.
In most instances these fevers were prolonged under the Pleiades and
till winter. Many persons, and more especially children, had convulsions
from the commencement; and they had fever, and the convulsions supervened
upon the fevers; in most cases they were protracted, but free from
danger, unless in those who were in a deadly state from other complaints.
Those fevers which were continual in the main, and with no intermissions,
but having exacerbations in the tertian form, there being remissions
the one day and exacerbations the next, were the most violent of all
those which occurred at that time, and the most protracted, and occurring
with the greatest pains, beginning mildly, always on the whole increasing,
and being exacerbated, and always turning worse, having small remissions,
and after an abatement having more violent paroxysms, and growing
worse, for the most part, on the critical days. Rigors, in all cases,
took place in an irregular and uncertain manner, very rare and weak
in them, but greater in all other fevers; frequent sweats, but most
seldom in them, bringing no alleviation, but, on the contrary, doing
mischief. Much cold of the extremities in them, and these were warmed
with difficulty. Insomnolency, for the most part, especially in these
fevers, and again a disposition to coma. The bowels, in all diseases,
were disordered, and in a bad state, but worst of all in these. The
urine, in most of them, was either thin and crude, yellow, and after
a time with slight symptoms of concoction in a critical form, or having
the proper thickness, but muddy, and neither settling nor subsiding;
or having small and bad, and crude sediments; these being the worst
of all. Coughs attended these fevers, but I cannot state that any
harm or good ever resulted from the cough.
