Note 671 — BOOK I.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

Galen looks upon this patient as an example or paradigm of general principles in Prognostics. Thus, with regard to the characters of the urine, it is stated that on the eleventh day the urine was thin, of a good color, and having many substances floating about in it, but without sediment. Thus matters remained until the sixteenth, when the urine became somewhat thicker, and had a slight sediment. Now Galen remarks (as the reader will find on turning to the Book of Prognostics) that these characters of the urine are indicative of recovery after a protracted disease. Galen further points out that no one of the fatal symptoms are mentioned, and that swellings of the parotid glands and the dysenteric affections of the bowels indicated that the crisis would be distant. He also calls attention to the case as confirmatory of the doctrines of Critical Days. In the Second Book of his work On Difficulty of Breathing, he makes some remarks, of no great importance however, on the meteorism of the hypochondriac region, as noticed in this case.