Book 3
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The woman who lodged with Tisamenus was in bed with a troublesome attack of inflammation of the upper bowel. Copious vomits; could not retain her drink. Pains in the region of the hypochondria. The pains were also lower, in the region of the bowels. Constant tormina. No thirst. She grew hot, though the extremities were cold all the time.
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Nausea; sleeplessness. Urine scanty and thin. Excreta crude, thin and scanty. It was no longer possible to do her any good, and she died.
CASE X
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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.
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Second day. Rigor; acute fever; copious stools; no sleep.
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Third day. The pains greater.
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Fourth day. Delirium.
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Seventh day. Death.
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The bowels were throughout loose, with copious, thin, crude stools. Urine scanty and thin.
CASE XI
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Another woman, after a miscarriage about the fifth month, the wife of Hicetas, was seized with fever. At the beginning she had alternations of coma and sleeplessness; pain in the loins; heaviness in the head.
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Second day. Bowels disordered with scanty, thin stools, which at first were uncompounded.
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Third day. Stools more copious and worse; no sleep at night.
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Fourth day. Delirium; fears; depression. Squinting of the right eye; slight cold sweat about the head; extremities cold.
