Case 7
In Abdera, the young woman who was lodged in the Sacred Walk
was seized with an ardent fever. She was thirsty, and could not sleep;
had menstruation for the first time. On the sixth, much nausea, flushing,
was chilly, and tossed about. On the seventh, in the same state; urine
thin,but of a good color; no disturbance about the bowels. On the
eighth, deafness, acute fever, insomnolency, nausea, rigors, became
collected; urine the same. On the ninth, in the same state, and also
on the following days; thus the deafness persisted. On the fourteenth,
disorder of the intellect; the fever abated. On the seventeenth, a
copious hemorrhage from the nose; the deafness slightly better; and
on the following days, nausea, deafness, and incoherence. On the twentieth,
pain of the feet; deafness and delirium left her; a small hemorrhage
from the nose; sweat, apyrexia. On the twenty-fourth, the fever returned,
deafness again; pain of the feet remained; incoherence. On the twenty-seventh,
had a copious sweat, apyrexia; the deafness left her; the pain of
her feet partly remained; in other respects had a complete crisis.
Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the restoration
of health on the twentieth day was the result of the evacuation of
urine.