Note 665 — BOOK I.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.
Francis Adams translation
It will be remarked that the characters of the urine throughout are favorable. Though darkish at first, this was reckoned not unfavorable, as being connected with the lochial discharge. (See Galen. Comment. 2, Epid. iii.) The sediments afterwards are all of good omen; but, as Galen remarks, its first characters indicated a prolonged fever.