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DCXCIV. If, notwithstanding the use of emetics and sudori- 

 fics, the disease should still continue, the cure must depend up- 

 on the employment of means for obviating debility and pu- 

 trescency ; and, for this purpose, the various remedies proposed 

 above (from CCI. to CCXXVII.) may all be administered, 

 but especially the tonics ; and of those the chief are cold drink 

 and the Peruvian bark. 



DCXCV. In the cure of the plague, gome attention is due 

 to the management of buboes and carbuncles : but we do not 

 touch this, as it belongs to the province of surgery. 



CHAP. VI. ERYSIPELAS, OR ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE. 



DCXCVI. In CCLXXIV. I mentioned the distinction 

 which I proposed to make between the diseases to be named 

 the Erythema and the Erysipelas ; and from thence it will ap- 

 pear, that Erysipelas, as an Erythema following fever, may 

 have its place here- 



DCXCVI I. I suppose the Erysipelas to depend on a matter 

 generated within the body, and which, analogous to the other 

 cases of exanthemata, is, in consequence of fever, thrown out upon 

 the surface of the body. I own it may be difficult to apply this 

 to every particular case of Erysipelas : but I take the case in 

 which it is generally supposed to apply, that of the Erysipelas 

 of the face ; which I shall therefore consider here. 



DCXCVIII. The Erysipelas of the face comes on with a 

 cold shivering, and other symptoms of pyrexia. The hot stage 

 of this is frequently attended with a confusion of head, and 

 some degree of delirium ; and almost always with drowsiness, 

 or perhaps coma. The pulse is always frequent, and commonly 

 full and hard. 



DCXCIX. When these symptoms have continued for one, 

 two, or at most three days, there appears, on some part of the face, 

 a redness, such as that described in CCLXXV. as the appear- 

 ance of Erythema. This redness, at first, is of no great extent ; 

 but gradually spreada from the part it first occupied to the other 

 parts of the face, commonly till it has affected the whole ; and 



