Note 669 — BOOK I.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

In this case, as Galen remarks, the continued sweats, unfavorable condition of the hypochondriac region, and the black urine, precluded all hopes of recovery. He thinks our author related the case as an instance of sudden death in fever, this patient having died on the fourth day after the attack (the first not being counted). See his Commentary. He also makes reflections upon this case in his work On Difficulty of Breathing, where he points out the danger of meteorism of the hypochondriac region as being necessarily accompanied with dyspnœa, and connected with inflammation (2).