Note 733 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

On this case Galen makes the remark that this patient must have had a strong constitution, otherwise it could not have withstood such an affection. He adds that, moreover, his pulse must have possessed strength, but that, as formerly said by him, this department of prognostics is altogether omitted by Hippocrates, in his reports of febrile cases. He further remarks that the respiration and appetite were not to complain of, and the only bad symptom was the thinness and blackness of the urine, which therefore required a long time for nature to overcome, by occasioning hemorrhage, pain of the hip-joint, and determination downwards. He adds, that great diseases require decided crises, and that even with those now mentioned, the disease was not entirely removed in this case, until concoction in the urine took place.