Note 634 — BOOK I.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.
Francis Adams translation
The modern physician will not fail to be struck with this observation as to the termination of certain cases of fever in determination to the kidneys. Galen remarks in his Commentary on this passage, that as the general system is often purged by the bowels, so is it also sometimes by the kidneys and bladder. This, he adds, is a protracted and painful mode of resolution in fevers. The reader will remark the characters of the urine as stated below by our author. One cannot help being struck with his statement, that all these cases recovered. I am not aware of any modern observations bearing on this point.