), signifies πυθανὸν, probable; ρ, signifies ῥύσιν, flux, or ρίγος, chill; φ, signifies φρενῖτιν, phrensy; ς, signifies σπασμὸν, convulsion, or στομαχοῦ ἢ στόματός κάκωσιν, illness of the stomach or mouth; τ, signifies τόκον, accouchement; υ, signifies ὑγείαν, health, or ὑποχόνδριον, hypochondrium; χ, signifies χολὴν, bile, or χολῶδες, bilious; ψ, signifies ψύξιν, congealing; ω, signifies ὠμότητα, crudity. See Galeni Opera, t. v., p. 412, ed. Basil.; and Littré’s Hippocrates, t. iii., p. 33.
According to this key, the characters at the end of the first case are thus explained by Galen: they are
ΠΟΥΜΥ. Here, then,
signifies πιθανὸν, it is probable, Π, πλῆθος, that an abundance, ου, οὔρων, of urine; Μ, on the 40th day; Υ, ὑγείαν, brought health. It is more fully expressed thus by Galen: πιθανὸν ειναιδιὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ἐκριθέντων όυρων ἀυτὸ λυρθῆναι τό νοσημα καὶ ὑγιῆ γενέσθαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἑν τῂ τεσσαρακοστῇ τῶν ἡμερῶν, that is to say, “it is probable that, owing to the copious discharge of urine, the disease was resolved, and the patient became well on the fortieth day.”
BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.
Sec. I.
Case I.—Pythion, who lived by the Temple of the Earth, on the first day, trembling commencing from his hands; acute fever, delirium. On the second, all the symptoms were exacerbated. On the third, the same. On the fourth alvine discharges scanty, unmixed, and bilious. On the fifth, all the symptoms were exacerbated, the tremors remained; little sleep, the bowels constipated. On the sixth sputa mixed, reddish. On the seventh, mouth drawn aside. On the eighth, all the symptoms were exacerbated; the tremblings were again constant; urine, from the beginning to the eighth day, thin, and devoid of color; substances floating in it, cloudy. On the tenth he sweated; sputa somewhat digested, had a crisis; urine thinnish about the crisis; but after the crisis, on the fortieth day, an abscess about the anus, which passed off by a strangury.
Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the great discharge of urine brought about the resolution of the disease, and the cure of the patient on the fortieth day.[682]