156 SYMPTOMS. 



tliis destructive epidemic, and judged accurately 

 of its nature from the melancholy note and so- 

 lemn manner of the pageant. 



Dr. Mair continues to state in his report, that 

 the disease seems to have assumed a considera- 

 ble variety of forms in different individuals, but 

 from the concurrent testimony of all the ob- 

 servers who were consulted, the following symp- 

 toms may be considered as common to all of 

 them. For several successive days the patient 

 feels languid, indolent, and oppressed, loses his 

 iappetite, suffers from head-ache, pain of chest 

 or stomach, increased heat of skin, and other 

 febrile symptoms. The usual duration of this 

 incipient stage appears to have been from two 

 to eight days. It was followed by an eruption 

 of small red spots, resembling flea-bites, which 

 generally commenced on the face, and gradu- 

 ally spread more or less thickly over the head, 

 breast, and extremities ; the tongue and lips 

 were likewise involved in the eruption, and the 

 soles of the feet have been particularly remarked 

 in many instances to be numerously studded 

 with it. 



When the eruption had fully developed itself, 

 which generally occurred in twenty-four hours, 

 a remission was observed to take place in the 

 febrile symptoms, but the patient began to com- 



