oai DISEASES Class II. i. 4 . 6. 





thus abforbed from a dead body, a livid line from the finger to 

 the fwelled gland in the axilla is faid to be vifible ; which (hews the 

 inflammation of the abforbent vefTel along its whole courfe to the 

 lymphatic gland ; and death has generallybeen the confequence. 



M. M. In the common paronychia a poultice is generally 

 fufhcient. In the abforption of putrid matter rub the whole 

 hand and arm with mercurial ointment three or four times a 

 dav, or perpetually. Could the (welled axillary gland be exfe£t- 

 ed ? In the abforption of venereal matter the ufual methods of 

 cure in fyphilis muit be adminiftered, as in Oafs II. i. 5. 1. 



6. Gutta rofea. The rofy drop on the face is of three kinds. 

 Firft the gutta rofea hepatica, or the red pimples on the faces of 

 drunkards, which are probably a kind of crifis, or vicarious in- 

 flammation, which fucceeds, or prevents, a torpor of the mem- 

 branes of the liver. This and the fucceeding fpecies properly 

 belong to Clafs IV. 1. 2. 14. 



Secondly, the pimpled face, in confequence of drinking cold 

 water, or eating cold turnips, or other infipid food, when much 

 heated with exercife ; which probably arifes from the fympathy 

 between the ikin of the face and the ftomach ; and may be call- 

 ed the gutta rofea Jtomatica. Which is diftinguifhed from the 

 former by the habits of the patient in refpecl: to drinking ; by 

 the colour of the eruptions being lefs deep ; and by the patient 

 continuing generally to be troubled with fome degree of apepfia. 

 See Clafs I. 3. 1. 3. I knew a lady who had long been afflict- 

 ed with pain about the region of the ftomach ; and, on drinking 

 half a pint of vinegar, as a medicine, (he had a breaking out 

 commenced on her face ; which remained, and (he became free 

 from the pain about the ftomach. Was this a ftomachic, or an 

 hepatic difeafe ? 



Thirdly, there is a red face, which confifts of fmaller pimples 

 than thole above mentioned •, and which is lefs liable to fuppu- 

 rate ; and which feems to be hereditary, or at lead has no appar- 

 ent caufe like thofe above mentioned ; which may be termed 

 gutta rofea hereditaria, or puncfa rofea. 



Mrs. S. had a pimpled face, which I believe arofe from pota^ 

 tion of ale. She applied alum in a poultice to it, and had foon 

 a paralytic ftroke, which difabled her on one fide, and termina- 

 ted in her death. 



Mrs. L. had a red pimpled face, which feemed to have been 

 derived from her mother, who had probably acquired it by vi- 

 nous potation ♦, (lie applied a quack remedy to it, which I believe 

 was a folution of lead, and was feized with epileptic fits, which 

 terminated in palfy, and deftroyed her. This fhews the danger 

 of uiing white paint on the face 5 which is called bifmuth, but is 



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