Note 661 — BOOK I.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

This, it will be remarked, is a case of fever induced from obvious causes, namely, excessive fatigue and dissipation. We must take into account, however, the febrile constitution of the season. According to Galen, the fatal result could have been confidently foreseen from the seventh day. The distention in the hypochondriac region here described would appear to have been meteorism. The throbbing in this region was no doubt owing no the same cause. The rash was most probable miliary. It is described as resembling vari (ἴονθοι), by which was probably meant acne. See Paulus Ægineta, Vol. I., p. 454. Upon reference to the Prognostics, it will be remarked that the characters of the urine are all bad, that is to say, it was either suppressed, or the sediment was either wanting or black and farinaceous. See Prognost. 12. By “black,” as applied to the urine, is to be understood “a dark-red color,” like that of wine.