Note 730 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

Galen remarks, that this is one of those cases which appear formidable to the inexperienced, but which those who are practiced in the art judge of as being likely to come to a speedy crisis. He adverts to the slight swelling of the spleen and the characters of the urine, which soon showed a proper sediment, as being particularly favorable symptoms. The more that we study Hippocratic medicine, we shall be the more convinced that too little attention has been paid of late years to the physical characters of the urine in all febrile complaints.