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which may be. added vomiting,-and fomietimes a-delirium, On the fecond, third; o¢ 
fourth, .day, the part-fwells, becomes red,-and fimall puftules appear > at which 
time the fever generally abates.. “When the eryfipelas is large, deep, and affects a 
very fenfible part of the body, the danger.is great. If the red colour changes into 
a livid or black, it will-end in.a mortification, Sometimes the inflammation Ccan- 
not be difcuffed, but comes. to a {uppuration ; in which cafe fiftulas, a gangrene, ot 
mortification, often enfue. . Such as die of this difeafe are commonly carried off by 
the fever, which is attended with difficulty of breathing, and fometimes with ade- 
lirium and great drowfinefs. They generally die about the feventh or eighth day, . 
__CURE..--In this complaint much mifchief is often done by medicines, efpecially 
by external applications ; whereas the principal object fhould be to. promote per- 
fpiration, which hasa great tendency to carry off the difeafe. It is common to bleed 
in the eryfipelas; but this likewife requires caution. If however the fever be high, 
the pulfe hard and ftrong, and the patient vigorous, it will be proper to bleed; but 
the quantity muft be regulated by thefe circumftances, and the operation repeated 
as the fymptoms may require. If the patient has been accuftomed to flrong liquors, 
and the-difeafe attacks his head, bleeding is abfolutely neceffary. Bathing the feet 
atid legs. frequently in lukewarm water, when the difeafe attacks the face or brain, 
has an excellent effe&. It tends to make a derivation from the head, and feldom 
fails to relieve the patient. When bathing proves ineffectual, poultices, or fharp 
| finapifms, may be applied to the foles of the feet for the fame purpofe. In cafes 
where bleeding is requifite, it is likewife neceffary to keep the body open. This 
may be effected by emollient clyfters, or fmall dofes of nitre and rhubarb. — Some 
indeed recommend very large dofes of nitre in the eryfipelas ; but nitte feldom fits 
eafy on the ftomach when taken in large dofes. It is however one of the beft me- 
dicines‘when the fever and inflammation run high. Half a drachm of it, with four 
or five grains of rhubarb, may be taken in the patient’s ordinary drink, four times a 
- day., When the eryfipelas feizes the head, fo as to occafion a delirium orftupor, blif- 
ters muft be applied to the neck, or behind the ears, and fharp cataplafms laid to the 
foles of the feet. In what is commonly called the feorbultic eryfipelas, which con- 
tinues for a confiderable time, it will only be neceffary to give gentle laxatives, and 
ake things as purify the blood, and promote the perfpiration. And, after the in- 
 flammation has been checked by opening medicines, the decoction of woods and 
: bitter herbs may. be drunk, as recommended for this difeafe in the Herbal. ‘ ne ; 
ci ‘THE fymptoms which ufually precede a true inflammation of the brain, are pain 
of the head, rednefs of the eyes, a Violent flufhing of the face, diftyrbed Mleep, or a total 
