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make us presume that they are properly exanthemata, and where 

 the appearance of the eruption at a determined period, and other 

 circumstances, point out a contagious nature ; and many of 

 these are accompanied by typhus. But I must also observe, 

 that we frequently have, as every body knows, erysipelas without 

 any sensible general fever attending it. I have seen many cases 

 where erythema was at first without any fever, but afterwards 

 the topical affection, becoming more general, produced general 

 fever to a great degree."" 



I have very constantly found erysipelas to be more or less 

 of the phlegmonic kind ; and in this country I have hardly seen 

 it in any degree putrid. In erysipelas I have therefore found 

 the bark generally hurtful ; but from the account of authors, it 

 appears to be sometimes of a putrid nature, although, as I 

 judge, especially, perhaps only, when it accompanies other dis- 

 eases of a putrid kind ; and in such cases the bark may be a ne- 

 cessary remedy. M.M. 



" I have had occasion to observe the Erysipelas phlyctaenodes 

 (See Synops. Nosol. gen. xxxi., sp. 2.), but I am pretty sure it 

 is a much rarer occurrence in this than even in our neighbour- 

 ing country of England. It must be comprehended under the 

 same genus of Erysipelas ; but I imagine that, in several re- 

 spects, the more inconsiderable fever which commonly attends 

 it, the parts which it occupies, viz. the trunk of the body, and 

 the particular appearances, make it justly considered as a dif- 

 ferent species. The only author who has with pains and ac- 

 curacy described it, is Dr. Russell in his work ' de tabe glan- 

 dularum.' " 



CHAP. VII. OF THE MILIARY FEVER. 



DCCXIV. This disease is said to have been unknown to the 

 ancients, and that it appeared, for the first time, in Saxony, 

 about the middle of the last century. It is said to have spread 

 from thence into all other parts of Europe; and, since the period 



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