Herod’s Symptoms and Diagnoses
Symptoms
• Muscular weakness
• Mild fever
• Intolerable itch over the whole skin
• Strong pains in the colon from ulceration of the entrails
• Transparent swellings around the feet as in dropsy
• Malignancy in the abdominal area
• Putrefaction of the private member, creating worms
• Orthopnea or high-pitched breathing
• Disagreeable breath
• Dyspnea or frequent gasping
• Spasms in all limbs of unendurable force
• Fainting and turning eyes up as though dead, when immersed in warm oil
• Melancholy and enragement
• Inability to take food due to overpowering pains
• Sustained convulsive cough
• Attempted suicide
Modern Diagnoses

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