Note 694 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

Galen has given us a lengthy Commentary on this case, but a great part of it relates to the characters and to other matters not of any very great importance in this place. As he remarks, it is a striking example of an acute fever induced by immoderate fatigue. It appears from his Commentary, moreover, that some of the older authorities had added “drinking” to the excesses which induced his affection; that is to say, they proposed to read πότων instead of πόνων. The symptoms, upon reference to the Prognostics, are all such as indicated a fatal result, namely, the blackish and thin urine, “the fumbling with the bedclothes,” the coldness and lividity of the extremities, the meteorism, and so forth.