Case 9
In Abdera, Heropythus, while still on foot, had pain in the
head, and not long afterwards he took to bed; he lived near the High
Street. Was seized with acute fever of the ardent type; vomitings
at first of much bilious matter; thirst; great restlessness; urine
thin, black, substances sometimes floating high in it, and sometimes
not; passed the night in a painful state; paroxysms of the fever diversified,
and for the most part irregular. About the fourteenth day, deafness;
the fever increased; urine the same. On the twentieth and following
days, much delirium. On the thirtieth, copious hemorrhage from the
nose, and became more collected; deafness continued, but less; the
fever diminished; on the following days, frequent hemorrhages, at
short intervals. About the sixtieth, the hemorrhages ceased, but violent
pain of the hip-joint, and increase of fever. Not long afterwards,
pains of all the inferior rule, that either the fever and deafness
increased, or, pains of the inferior parts were increased. About the
eightieth day, all the complaints gave way, without leaving any behind;
for the urine was of a good color, and had a copious sediment, while
the delirium
[p. 141] became less. About the hundredth day, disorder of the
bowels, with copious and bilious evacuations, and these continued
for a considerable time, and again assumed the dysenteric form with
pain; but relief of all the other complaints. On the whole, the fevers
went off, and the deafness ceased. On the hundred and twentieth day,
had a complete crisis. Ardent fever.
Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the bilious discharge
brought about the recovery on the hundred and twentieth day.
