Note 696 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.
Francis Adams translation
As remarked by Galen in his Commentary, this was no doubt a case of ardent fever or caucus, complicated with an incidental miscarriage. There is no reason for looking upon it as being a case of puerperal fever. Galen thinks that the last word (caucus) is an addition made by the copyists, having been transferred from the Glossarium to the text in the course of transcription. Galen, as usual, directs attention to the characters of the urine, which in this case are particularly unfavorable, being defective both in quantity and quality.