Note 674 — BOOK I.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

Galen, in the commentary, makes a remark regarding this report, which appears more important to him than it will do to most modern readers, namely, that he wonders Hippocrates did not state the age of this patient. He adds, that it is very rare for a pregnant woman to have such a serious fever without parting with her child. He thinks the patient, in the present instance, owed her recovery to the strength of her constitution, as “urine white, and not of a good color,” in combination with the other bad symptoms, indicated an unfavorable result. By the way, upon reference to the Basle edition of Galen, and to Foës’s annotations on this case, it will be seen that there is a difference of reading in the words descriptive of the urine, that is to say, some read ἀχρόων, some εὑχρόων. Certainly it appears to me that Foës is right in preferring the latter. The decided crisis, it will be remarked, took place on a critical day, that is to say, the fourteenth, by a sweat.