liS ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



flightly inflamed lips, or edges. In fome 

 inftances however, running together, 

 they fpread to a great extent j fo that all 

 xht fatty membrane of the belly below 

 the navel, has been laid into one large 

 foul ulcer, with fuch intolerable and pe- 

 culiar flench, that thofe in this condi- 

 tion might be laid to be rotten before 

 they were dead. In fome children the 

 whole fcalp has been in a mortified iiate, 

 the gars ready to drop off. Smaller ul- 

 cers formed likewife on the bread and 

 face, covered with a purulent or mattery 

 Hough, and always remained in a dead 

 ftate, without pain or inflammation, and 

 hardly ever growing larger. 



3. Still increaiing in malignity, it 

 affumed another appearance. Boils here 

 and there, luppuradng or bealingy form- 

 ed ulcers in different parts, in the arms, 

 flioulders, face, legs, and feet ; and pene- 

 trated as far as the mufcles ov Jiejljy parts , 

 leaving them quite bare, and feeming to 

 eat fuperficially into them. They were 

 of a high florid colour, without any mat- 

 ter to defend them., except a little ichor, 



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