Note 624 — BOOK I.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

The nature of the continual fevers of the ancients is fully explained in the Commentary on the twenty-seventh section of the Second Book of Paulus Ægineta. Galen, in his Commentary on this passage, marks their nature very distinctly in few words. He says that such fevers as have an exacerbation of fever ending in complete apyrexia are called intermittents, whereas such as do not end in a complete remission of the fever are called continual. See further De Diff. Febr., ii., 2. In a word, the continual fevers were decidedly of the remittent type. See further Donald Monro’s work on Army Diseases, in the beginning of the chapter on the Bilious Remittent Fever.