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She did not open her eyes, but felt about for his hand, and touching it, she seemed to weigh the fingers. At last she said: 'The fever should be at its height. 'Why, my dear brave girl, what ails you? said he. 'Ignorance. She raised her eyelids. His head was bent down over her, like a raven's watching, a picture of gravest vigilance. Her bosom rose and sank.
"I am in a burning fever and have lost consciousness three times during the day if when I am in that state any one should..." "But who could take your place?" "The Lydian captain of the eunuchs, Kandaules. He is true as gold, and inflexibly severe. One day of rest would restore me to health. Have mercy, O King!" "No one is so badly served as the king himself.
"I do not." "I will go then. It may save time, and that is important." The doctor went out hurriedly, and in less than five minutes returned with Doctor R . The two physicians conferred for some time, speaking in under tones. Mr. Dexter heard the words "congestion of the brain" and "brain fever," with increasing alarm.
Edward Symmes's, the brother of the other Symmes, two miles off; and no good Dr. Lewen being there to interpose, the unhappy rencounter followed. My brother was disarmed, as you have heard; and on being brought home, and giving us ground to suppose he was much worse hurt than he really was, and a fever ensuing, every one flamed out; and all was laid at my door. Mr.
Ever since the commencement of the rainy season my health had been greatly on the decline. I had often been affected with slight paroxysms of fever; and from the time of leaving Bammakoo the symptoms had considerably increased.
"A dozen of good port will soon set you up!" said the surgeon to me after fever. Then why not drink port before the fever? They are right as far as the southern temperates, their sole field of observation; they greatly err in all except the hot, dry parts of the tropics.
Captain Glass, binoculars in hand and peering at the chart made by himself, which was spread on top the cabin, straightened up with an expression on his face that was half alarm, half resignation. "It's coming," he said. "Fever. It wasn't due till to-morrow. It always hits me hard, Mr. Grief. In five minutes I'll be off my head. You'll have to con the schooner in. Boy! Get my bunk ready!
We can see why the Moslem camel-driver should find it most natural to regard the whirling simoom as a malignant Jinni; we may understand how it is that the Persian sees in bodily shape the scarlet fever as "a blushing maid with locks of flame and cheeks all rosy red"; and we need not consider it strange that the primeval Aryan should have regarded the sun as a voyager, a climber, or an archer, and the clouds as cows driven by the wind-god Hermes to their milking.
David could say one thing only which would rouse him, namely, that Grizel was not to die in this fever; and for long it seemed impossible to say that. "Would you have her live if her mind remains affected?" he asked; and Tommy said firmly, "Yes." "You think, I suppose, that then you would have less for which to blame yourself!" "I suppose that is it.
A dry crust is relished, when an individual is hungry, more than the most savoury and delicate dainties when he is in a fever; and water to one man, is a more delicious beverage than the juice of the grape or of the palm to another.