Note 740 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.
Francis Adams translation
Galen, in his Commentary, accounts for this fatal disease upon the supposition that the uterus was inflamed, and affected the brain by sympathy, hence maniacal delirium and convulsions were the consequence. Galen, both in his Commentary, and in his work On Crises, refers to this case, in confirmation of his doctrine of critical days.