Note 719 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

By nocturnal fevers, according to Galen, was meant quotidians, which had their paroxysms during the night. Foës inclines to think that diurnal should also be inserted in this place. These nocturnal fevers are thus described by D. Monro: “The sick were restless and uneasy at night; but commonly felt themselves cooler and lighter in the daytime: and although they had no cold fit, as the fever came on at nights, and many of them no breathing sweat, as they became cooler and freer from the fever in the morning; yet the fits were so remarkable, that many of the patients used to say that they had a regular fit of an ague every night, and some few that they had the fit every second night.” (Army Diseases, etc., p. 158.)