Book 3
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Fifth day. General exacerbation; much wandering, with rapid recovery of reason; no thirst; no sleep; stools copious and unfavourable throughout; urine scanty, thin and blackish; extremities cold and rather livid.
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Sixth day. Same symptoms.
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Seventh day. Death.
CASE XII
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A woman who lay sick by the Liars’ Market, after giving birth in a first and painful delivery to a male child, was seized with fever. From the very first there was thirst, nausea, slight pain at the stomach, dry tongue, bowels disordered with thin and scanty discharges, no sleep.
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Second day. Slight rigor; acute fever; slight, cold sweating around the head.
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Third day. In pain; crude, thin, copious discharges from the bowels.
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Fourth day. Rigor; general exacerbation; sleepless.
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Fifth day. In pain.
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Sixth day. The same symptoms; copious, fluid discharges from the bowels.
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Seventh day. Rigor; acute fever; thirst; much tossing; towards evening cold sweat all over; chill; extremities cold, and would not be warmed. At night she again had a rigor; the extremities would not be warmed; no sleep; slight delirium, but quickly was rational again.
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Eighth day. About mid-day recovered her heat; thirst; coma; nausea; vomited bilious, scanty, yellowish matters. An uncomfortable night; no sleep; unconsciously passed a copious discharge of urine.
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Ninth day. General abatement of the symptoms; coma. Towards evening slight rigor; vomited scanty, bilious matters.
