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CASE X

A woman who was one of the house of Pantimides after a miscarriage was seized with fever on the first day. Tongue dry ; thirst ; nausea ; sleeplessness. Bowels disordered, with thin, copious and crude stools.

Second day. Rigor ; acute fever ; copious stools ; no sleep.

Third day. The pains greater.

Fourth day. Delirium.

Seventh day. Death.

The bowels were throughout loose, with copious, thin, crude stools. Urine scanty and thin.

Hippocrates Collected Works I. Hippocrates. W. H. S. Jones. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1868.

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