DISEASES CLASS IV. 1. 2. 13. 



the skin: and becomes fuller of pustules, than any other part of 

 the body. See Class II. 1. 3. 9. 



It might be supposed, that the successive swelling of the hands, 

 when the face subsides, at the height of the small-pox, and of the 

 feet, when the hands subside, were governed by some unknown 

 associations of those parts of the system; but these successions of 

 tumour and subsidence more evidently depend on the times of 

 the eruption of the pustules on those parts, as they appear a day 

 sooner on the face than on the hands, and a day sooner on the 

 hands than on the feet, owing to the greater comparative mobi- 

 lity of those parts of the skin. 



13. Gutta rosea stomatica. Stomatic red face. On drinking 

 cold water, or cold milk, when heated with exercise, or on eat- 

 ing cold vegetables, as raw turnips, many people in harvest-time 

 have been afflicted with what has been called a surfeit. The 

 stomach becomes painful, with indigestion and flatulency, and 

 after a few days an eruption of the face appears, and continues 

 with some relief, but not with entire relief; as both the pimpled 

 face and indigestion are liable to continue even to old age. 



M. M. Venesection. A cathartic with calomel. Then half a 

 grain of opium twice a day for many weeks. If saturated solu- 

 tion of arsenic three or five drops twice or thrice a day for a 

 week? 



14. Gutta rosea hepatica. The rosy drop of the face'of some 

 drinking people is produced like the gout described below, in 

 consequence of an inflamed liver. In these constitutions the 

 skin of the face being exposed to greater variation of heat and 

 cold than the membranes of the liver, possesses more mobility 

 than those hepatic membranes; and hence by whatever means 

 these membranes are induced to sympathize, when this sensitive 

 association occurs, the cutaneous vessels of the face run into 

 greater degrees of those motions, which constitute inflammation, 

 than previously existed in the membranes of the liver; and then 

 those motions of the liver cease. See Class II. 1. 4. 6. 



As inflammation of the liver so frequently attends the great 

 potation of vinous spirit, there is reason to suspect, that this vis- 

 qus itself becomes inflamed by sensitive association with the sto- 

 mach; or that, when one termination of the bile-duct, which en- 

 ters the duodenum, is stimulated violently, the other end may 

 become inflamed by sensitive association. 



15. Podagra. The gout, except when it affects the liver or 

 stomach, seems always to be a secondary disease, and, like the 

 rheumatism and ei vsipelas mentioned below, begins with the tor- 

 por of some distant part of the system. 



The most frequent primary seat of the gout I suppose to be 



