SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES. S7 



Bome cases being so slight as to go off without the aid of medicine; in others; 

 being accompanied with symptoms of great and fatal putrescency. It will be 

 proper to notice separately, the mild and fatal scarlet fever, and to describe 

 some cases, in which the symptoms are irregularly combined, it being always 

 remembered that "the malignant sore-throat maybe caught from a patient 

 who has mild scarlet fever; and mild scarlet fever may, in like manner be 

 contracted from one who is laboring under malignant sore-throat. These forms 

 graduate insensibly towards each other " Remedt pages 52, 64, 256, 257, 

 258. 



Mild Scarlet Fever.— The milder form of scarlet fever is distinguished 

 by the rash, with a modentte degree of ferer, and with very little aftection of 

 the throat The rash first appears in innumerable red points about the neck 

 and face, an<l by the next day tliey are seen orer the whole surface of the body. 

 The skin is rough to Um; touch, and sometimes there arc small vesicles. About 

 the fourth day the erui>tioji is at its height, and on the fifth it begins to decline. 

 Tlie surface of the mouth and fauces appears red, and little red points appear 

 on the tongue rising up through the white crust which covers it, and when this 

 crust con>es off, the whole is red and sore, and the points are still prominent, 

 giving an appearance like a strawberry. There is sometimes considerable 

 sweUing of the face and of the throat. Remedy, same as above. 



SCROFULA.— .9ywp/ows.— Scrofula and King's Evil, are names for a 

 tedious and multiform di.sease, of which one of the most characteristic marks 

 is a tendency to a swelling of glanduhir jmrts, which, when they come on to 

 inflammation and suppuration, discharge an unhealthy, curdy, mixed matter, 

 and form ulcers very difficult to heal. Remedy, pages 141, 142. 



SHINGLES.— 5yr»p/<nns.— A disease characterized by a number of vesi- 

 cles, most commonly round the waist, like half a sash; but sometimes like a 

 sword-belt across the shoulder. It very rarely surrounds the body completely: 

 hence, a popular, but groundless apprehension, that if the disea.«ie goes round, 

 it will be fatal. The disease is usually preceded, for two or three days, by 

 languor and loss of appetite, rigors, headache, sickness, and a frequent pulse, 

 with a heat and tingling in the skin, and shooting pains through the chest, and 

 at the pit of the stomach. After these symptoms, more or less severe, there 

 appear, on some part of the trunk, red patches of an irregular form, at a little 

 distance from each other; upon each of which numerous small elevations 

 api^>ear, clustered togetiier. In the course of twenty-four hours, they enlarge 

 to the size of small pearls, and are filled with a limpid fluid. The clusters are 

 surrounded by a narrow red margin. During three or four days, other clusters 

 continue to rise in succession, and with considerable regularity. About the 

 fourth day, the vesicles acquire a milky or yellowish hue, which is soon fol- 

 lowed by a bluish or livid color of the bases of the vesicles, and of the con- 

 tamed fluid. Several of them run together; and those which are broken dis- 

 charge a small quantity of a serous fluid for three or four days; this concretes 

 into thin dark scabs, which soon become hard, and fall off about the twelfth 

 or fourteenth day. Where there has been considerable discharge, numerous 

 pits are left. The feverish symptoms commonly subside when the eruption is 



