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their faeces buried as soon as may be; or conveyed into a running 

 stream; and themselves should be washed with cold or warm 

 water after every evacuation. For the contagious matter consists 

 in the mucous or purulent discharge from the membrane which 

 lines the intestines; and not from the febrile perspiration, or 

 breath of the patients. For the fever is only the consequence 

 and not the cause of contagion; as appears from Genus the 

 Fifth of this Order, where contagion exists without fever. 



19. Gastritis superficialis. Superficial inflammation of the 

 stomach. An erysipelatous inflammation of the stomach is men- 

 tioned by Dr. Cullen from his own observations; which is dis- 

 tinguished from the inflammatory gastritis by less pain and fever, 

 and by an erysipelatous redness about the fauces. Does this 

 disease belong to aphtha? 



20. Enteritis superficialis. Superficial inflammation of the 

 bowels is also mentioned by Dr. Cullen, from his own observa- 

 tion, under the name of enteritis erythematica; and is said to 

 be attended with less pain and fever, without vomiting, and with 

 diarrhoea. May not this disease be referred to aphtha, or to 

 dysentery? 



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