DISEASES CLASS II. 1. 4. 6 



thus absorbed from a dead body, a livid line from the finger to the 

 swelled giand in the axilla is said to be visible; which shews the 

 inflammation of the absorbent vessel along it! whole course to the 

 lymphatic gland; ami death has generally been the consequence. 



M. M. In the common paronychia a poultice is generally suf- 

 ficient. In the absorption of putrid matter rub the whole hand 

 and arm with mercurial ointment three or four times a day, or 

 perpetually. Could the swelled axillary gland be exsected? In 

 the absorption of venereal matter the usual methods of cure in 

 syphilis must be administered, as in Class II. 1. 5. 1. 



6. Gutta rosea. The rosy drop on the face is of three kinds. 

 First, the gutta rosea hepatica, or the red pimples on the faces of 

 drunkards, which are probably a kind of crisis, or vicarious in- 

 flammation, which succeeds or prevents, a torpor of the mem- 

 branes of the liver. This and the succeeding species properly be- 

 long to Class IV. 1. 2. 14. 



Secondly, the pimpled face, in consequence of drinking cold 

 water, or eating cold turnips, or other insipid food, when much 

 heated with exercise; which probably arises from the sympathy 

 between the skin of the face and the stomach; and may be called 

 the gutta rosea stomatica. Which is distinguished from the for- 

 mer by the habits of the patient in respect to drinking; by the co- 

 lour of the eruptions being less deep; and by the patient conti- 

 nuing generally to be troubled with some degree of apepsia. 

 See Class I. 3. 1. 3. I knew a lady who had long been afflict- 

 ed with pain about the region of the stomach; and, on drinking 

 half a pint of vinegar, as a medicine, she had a breaking out 

 commenced on her face; which remained, and she became free 

 from the pain about the stomach. Was this a stomachic, or an 

 hepatic disease? 



Thirdly, there is a red face, which consists of smaller pimples 

 than those above mentioned; and which is less liable to suppu- 

 rate; and which seems to be hereditary, or at least has no appa- 

 rent cause like those above mentioned; which may be termed 

 gutta rosea heredilaria, or puncta rosea. 



Mrs. S, had a pimpled face, which I believe arose from pota- 

 tion of ale. She applied alum in a poultice to it, and had soon 

 a paralytic stroke, which disabled her on one side, and termi- 

 nated in her death. 



Mrs. L. had a red pimpled face, which seemed to have been 

 derived from her mother, who had probably acquired it by vi- 

 nous potation; she applied a quack remedy to it, which I believe 

 was a solution of lead, and was seized with epileptic fits, which 

 terminated in palsy, and destroyed her. This shews the danger 

 of using white paint on the face, which is called bismuth, but is 



