CLASS IV, 1. 2. 17. OF ASSOCIATION. 391 



this was a most distressing circumstance to him, and was in vain 

 endeavoured to be relieved by supporting his jaw by slender steel 

 springs fixed to his nightcap, and by springs of elastic gum. The 

 sloughs spread and seemed to accelerate his death. v See Class I. 

 1. 3. 2. 



In acute rheumatism Mr. Kellie asserts that he has had great 

 success by putting a tourniquet on the affected limb, so as to 

 compress the artery, and then by taking blood from a vein below 

 the bandage as mentioned above in Podagra. Class IV. 1. 2. 15. 



17. Erysipelas. The erysipelas differs from the zona ignea, 

 and other species of herpes, in its being attended with fever, 

 which is sometimes of the sensitive irritated or inflammatory 

 kind, with strong and full pulse; and at other times with weak 

 pulse and great inirritability, as when it precedes or attends mor- 

 tifications. See Class II. I. 3. 2. 



Like the zona ignea above described, it seems to be a secon- 

 dary disease, having for its primary part the torpor or inflamma- 

 tion of some internal or distant membrane, as appears from its 

 so frequently attending wounds; sometimes spreading from is- 

 sues over the whole limb, or back, by sympathy with a tendon 

 or membrane, which is stimulated by the peas in them. In 

 its more violent degree I suppose that it sympathizes with fcome 

 extensive internal membranes, as of the liver, stomach, or brain. 

 Another reason which countenances this idea is, that the inflam- 

 mation gradually changes its situation, one part healing as another 

 inflames; as happens in respect to more distant parts in gout 

 and rheumatism; and which seems to shew, that the cause of the 

 disease is not in the same place with the inflammation. And 

 thirdly, because the erysipelas of the face and head is liable to 

 affect the membranes of the brain; which were probably in these 

 cases the original or primary seat of the disease; and lastly,, 

 because the fits of erysipelas, like those of the gout, are liable 

 to return at certain annual or monthly periods, as further treated 

 of in Class II. 1. 3. 2. 



Many cases of erysipelas from wounds or bruises are related in 

 Desault's Surgical Journal, Vol. II. in which poultices are said 

 to do great injury, as well as oily or fatty applications. Satur- 

 nine solutions were sometimes used with advantage. A grain of 

 emetic tartar given to clear the stomach and bowels, is said to be 

 of great service. 



18. Tcstium tumor in gonorrhoea. Mr. Hunter in his Treatise 

 on the Venereal Disease observes, that the tumor of the tcstes in 

 gonorrhoea arises from their sympathy with the inflammation of 

 the urethra; and that they* are not similar to the actions arising 

 from the application of venereal matter, whether by absorption or 



