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colored spots ; and purpura, in which the spots are of a livid or 

 purple color. In this class of diseases may be placed boils, (or 

 biles), termed by some writers phlogosis ; and, perhaps, the paro- 

 nychia, or whitlow ; though this may be caused by local injury, fol- 

 lowed by inflammation. 



In this division of medicine, we may place the diseases termed 

 Hsemorrhagise, or effusions of blood ; which, though not eruptive 

 diseases in a technical sense, are yet placed next to them by most 

 nosologists, and partake, at least, of their febrile character. They 

 are, in fact, an eruption of the blood ; sometimes owing to an irritated 

 state of the capillary vessels, in which the blood passes from the arte- 

 ries to the veins ; and sometimes caused by the rupture of a blood 

 vessel. Among these diseases are epistaxis, or bleeding of the nose ; 

 hsemoptisis, or spitting of blood from the lungs ; hsematemesis, or 

 vomiting of blood from the stomach ; hsematuria, or sanguineous effu- 

 sion from the bladder ; and hsemorrhois, or piles, with sanguineous 

 discharges from the bowels. Organic diseases of the heart, might, 

 we think, here find their proper place. The treatment, in most of 

 these cases, must have a reference to their locality ; and consists in 

 relieving the blood vessels, if necessary, and strengthening the parts 

 affected. 



3. Under the head of Nervous Diseases, we include those 

 disorders, termed by Cullen, Neuroses, in which the nervous system 

 is more immediately affected ; whether originally, or by sympathy; 

 and whether the mind be disordered thereby, or not. First, among 

 these diseases, we would place the Mynamise, or diseases resulting 

 from nervous debility ; as apoplexy, or sudden and continued failure 

 of the powers of sense and motion ; paralysis, or loss of sensation 

 and motion in only a part of the body ; catalepsy, or a temporary 

 suspension of consciousness, without lethargy or spasms ; and syn- 

 cope, or fainting, with deficient circulation and respiration during the 

 swoon : to which we may add anorexia, or failure of appetite ; dys- 

 pepsia, or indigestion, often attended with hypochondriasis, or lan- 

 guid melancholy ; aphonia, or loss of the voice ; amarosis, or 

 gutta serena, consisting in paralysis of the optic nerve ; cophosis, or 

 failure of hearing ; and similar diseases, arising from weakness, or 

 suspension, of the nervous functions. Dementia, or wandering of 

 the mind ; and amentia, or idiotism, also belong, we think, to this 

 group of diseases. 



Next, among the nervous diseases, we place the Erethismi ; in 

 which the nerves are irritated, or their sensibility increased. These 

 include agrypnia, or watchfulness, through nervous excitement ; and 

 oneirodynia, or the incubus, or night mare, consisting in a sense of 

 oppression, during sleep; to which we may add bulimia, or pre- 

 ternatural hunger ; and pica, or appetite for unnatural food. In this 

 class we may also comprehend Neuralgia, or local pains in the 

 nerves; as cephalagia, or headache; prosophalgia, or faceache; 

 otalgia, or earache ; odontalgia, or toothache ; gastrodynia, or pain 

 in the stomach ; and pleurodynia, or pain in the side. These 

 diseases are produced, sometimes by local injury to the nerves, and 

 sometimes by miasmata, or other causes. In the latter case, relief is 



