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do not admit of any treatment, except that of preventing them 

 by the means of resolution, or they belong to a treatise of sur- 

 gery rather than to this place. 



Having thus, therefore, delivered the general doctrine, I 

 proceed now to consider the particular genera and species of in- 

 flammation. 



It has been hinted above (CCLXIIL), that the difference 

 of inflammations arises chiefly from the difference of the part 

 affected : I have therefore arranged them, as they are CUTA- 

 NEOUS, VISCERAL, or ARTICULAR ; and in this order they are 

 now to be considered. 



" I have enumerated the genera without setting down any 

 marks of distinction, but I will give you what I would attempt 

 upon the subject. I first consider Phlegmasise as affecting 

 several external parts, and accordingly begin with Phlogosis 

 and Ophthalmia ; after these, a series of inflammations taken as 

 they occur a capite ad calcem, but which I would limit more 

 exactly to the inflammation of parts contained in one of the 

 great cavities of the body ; the third division consists of phleg- 

 masiai which are somewhat ambiguous, viz. Rheumatism and 

 Arthritis, and which form our last genera." 



CHAP. II OF INFLAMMATION, MORE STRICTLY 

 CUTANEOUS. 



CCLXXIV. Cutaneous inflammations are of two kinds, 

 commonly distinguished by the names of PHLEGMON and 

 ERYSIPELAS. 



Of the latter there are two cases, which ought to be distin- 

 guished by different appellations. When the disease is an af- 

 fection of the skin alone, and very little of the whole system, or 

 when the affection of the system is only symptomatical of the 

 external inflammation, I shall give the disease the name of 

 ERYTHEMA ; but when the external inflammation is an exan- 

 thema, and symptomatical of an affection of the whole system, 

 I shall then name the disease ERYSIPELAS. 



CCLXXV. It is the Erythema only that I am to consider 

 here. 



For the distinction between Erythema and Phlegmon, I have 



