Class IV. i. 2. 17. OF ASSOCIATION. 391 



this was a moft diftreffmg circumftance to him, and was in vain 

 endeavoured to be relieved by fupporting his jaw by {lender 

 fteel fprings fixed to his night-cap, and by fprings of elaftic gum. 

 The floughs fpread and feemed to accelerate his death. See 

 Oafs I. 1. 3. 2. 



In acute rheumatifm Mr. Kellie afferts that he has had great 

 fuccefs by putting a tourniquet on the affected limb, fo as to 

 eomprefs the artery, and then by taking blood from a vein below 

 the bandage, as mentioned above in Podagra. Clafs IV. 1. 2. 15. 

 17. Eryfipelas. The eryfipelas differs from the zona ignea, 

 and other fpecies of herpes, in its being attended with fever, 

 which is fometimes of the fenfitive irritated or inflammatory 

 kind, with ftrong and full pulfe ; and at other times with weak 

 pulfe and great inirritability, as when it precedes or attends 

 mortifications. See Clafs II. 1. 3. 2. 



Like the zona ignea above defcribed, it feems to be a fecond- 

 ary difeafe, having for its primary part the torpor or inflam- 

 mation of fome internal or diftant membrane, as appears from 

 its fo frequently attending wounds *, fometimes fpreading from 

 iffues over the whole limb, or back, by fympathy with a tendon 

 or membrane, which is Simulated by the peafe in them. In 

 its more violent degree I fuppofe that it fympathizes with fome 

 extenfive internal membranes, as of the liver, ftomach, or brain. 

 Another reafon, which countenances this idea, is, that the in- 

 flammation gradually changes its fituation, one part healing as 

 another inflames ; as happens in refpect to more diftant parts in 

 gout and rheumatifm ; and which feems to ihew,that the caufe of 

 the difeafe is not in the fame place with the inflammation. And 

 thirdly, becaufe the eryfipelas of the face and head is liable to 

 affect the memb ranes of the brain j which were probably in 

 thefe cafes the original or primary feat of the difeafe ; and laitly, 

 becaufe the fits of eryfipelas, like thofe of the gout, are liable 

 to return at certain annual or monthly periods, as further treat- 

 ed of in Clafs II. 1. 3. 2. 



Many cafes of eryfipelas from wounds or bruifes are related 

 in Default's Surgical Journal, Vol. II. in which poultices are 

 faid to do great injury, as well as oily or fatty applications. Sat- 

 urnine folutions were fometimes ufed with advantage. A 

 grain of emetic tartar given to clear the ftomach and bowels, is 

 faid to be of great fervice. 



18. Tejllum tumor hi gonorrhoea. Mr. Hunter in his Treatifs 

 on the Venereal Difeafe obferves, that the tumor of the tefles in 

 gonorrhoea arifes from their fympathy with the inflammation of 

 the urethra ; and that they are not fimilar to the actions arifing 

 from the application of venereal mattar, whether by abforption 



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