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their fseces buried as foon as may be ; or conveyed into a running 

 ftream ; and themfelves fhould be xvafhed with cold or warm 

 water after every evacuation. For the contagious matter confifts 

 in the mucous or purulent difcharge from the membrane which 

 lines the inteftines ; and not from the febrile perfpiration, or 

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

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

 Fifth of this Order, where contagion exifts without fever. 



19. Gaflritis fuperficialis. Superficial inflammation of the 

 ftomach. An eryfipelatous inflammation of the ftomach is men- 

 tioned by Dr. Cullen from his own obiervations \ which is dif- 

 tinguimed from the inflammatory gaftritis by lefs pain and fever, 

 and by an eryfipelatous rednefs about the fauces. Does this 

 difeafe belong to aphtha ? 



20. Enteritis fuperficlalis. Superficial inflammation of the 

 bowels is alfo mentioned by Dr. Cullen, from his own obferva- 

 tion, under the name of enteritis erythematica \ and is faid to 

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

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

 dyfentery ? 



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