Kitap 3
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Thirty-fourth day. Sweated all over; no fever; general crisis.I am conscious of a slight change in diction and method in this part of the Epidcmics. I mention four points:— (1) The frequent use of πυρετὸς in the plural, which is unusual when it simply means feverishness (Cases VIII, IX, XII, XIII). (2) καταβαίνω is used of evacuations (Cases VII, IX οὔρα . . . κατέβαινεν, XII). (3) Treatment is mentioned (Case VIII, θερμάσματα, and ἀγκῶνα ἔταμον, where note the personal touch). (4) ἱδρύνομαι used of recovery of reason, = κατανοῶ (Case XV). The change is marked enough to lead one to suppose that these histories were composed at a different period in the writer’s life.
CASE IX
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In Abdera Heropythus had pain in the head without taking to bed, but shortly afterwards was compelled to do so. He lived close to the Upper Road.With Blass’ reading, Upper Market-place. An acute, ardent fever seized him. Vomited at the beginning copious, bilious matters; thirst; great discomfort; urine thin and black, sometimes with, sometimes without, substances suspended in it. Painful night, with fever rising now in this way, now in that, but for the most part irregularly. About the fourteenth day, deafness; the fever grew worse; urine the same.
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Twentieth day. Much delirium, also on the following days.
