Case 6
Cleonactides, who was lodged above the Temple of Hercules,
was seized with a fever in an irregular form; was pained
[p. 118]in the head
and left side from the commencement, and had other pains resembling
those produced by fatigue; paroxysms of the fevers inconstant and
irregular; occasional sweats; the paroxysms generally attacked on
the critical days. About the twenty-fourth was cold in the extremities
of the hands, vomitings bilious, yellow, and frequent, soon turning
to a verdigris-green color; general relief. About the thirtieth, began
to have hemorrhage from both nostrils, and this continued in an irregular
manner until near the crisis; did not loathe food, and had no thirst
throughout, nor was troubled with insomnolency; urine thin, and not
devoid of color. When about the thirtieth day, passed reddish urine,
having a copious red sediment; was relieved, but afterwards the characters
of the urine varied, sometimes having sediment, and sometimes not.
On the sixtieth, the sediment in the urine copious, white, and smooth;
all the symptoms ameliorated; intermission of the fever; urine thin,
and well colored. On the seventieth, fever gone for ten days. On the
eightieth had a rigor, was seized with acute fever, sweated much;
a red, smooth sediment in the urine; and a perfect crisis.