3 7 8 DISEASES CLASS IV. i . 2. 1 3, 



the {kin ; and becomes fuller of puftules, than any other part of 

 the body. See Clafs II. i. 3. 9. 



It might be fuppofed, that the fucceflive fwelling of the hands, 

 when the face fubfides, at the height of the fmall-pox, and of 

 the feet, when the hands fubfide, were governed by fome un- 

 known afibciations of thofe parts of the fyftem ; but thefe fuc- 

 ceflions of tumor and fubfidence more evidently depend on the 

 times of the eruption of the puftules on thofe parts, as they appear 

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

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

 mobility of thofe parts of the fkin. 



13. Gutta rofea Jlomatlca. Stomatic red face. On drinking 

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

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

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

 ftomach becomes painful, with indigeftion and flatulency, and 

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

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

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



M. M. Venefeclion. A cathartic with calomel. Then half 

 a grain of opium twice a day for many weeks. If faturated fo- 

 lution of arfenic three or five drops twice or thrice a day for a 

 week ? 



1 4. Gutta rofea hepatica. The rofy drop of the face of fome 

 drinking people is produced like the gout defcribed below, in 

 confequence of an inflamed liver. In thefe conftitutions the 

 jkin of the face being expofed to greater variation of heat and 

 cold than the membranes of the liver, poffefles more mobility 

 than thofe hepatic membranes ; and hence by whatever means 

 thefe membranes are induced to fympathize, when this fenfitive 

 afibciation occurs, the cutaneous veflels of the face run into 

 greater degrees of thofe motions, which conftitute inflammation, 

 than previoufly exifted in the membranes of the liver ; and then 

 thofe motions of the liver ceafe. See Clafs II. i. 4. 6. 



As inflammation of the liver fo frequently attends the great 

 potation of vinous fpirit, there is reafon to fufpecl:, that this vif- 

 cus itfelf becomes inflamed by fenfitive afibciation with the 

 ftomach ; or that, when one termination of the bile-du6l, which 

 enters the duodenum, is ftimulated violently, the other end may 

 become inflamed by fenfitive afibciation. 



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

 ftomach, feems always to be a fecondary difeafe, and, like the 

 rheumatifm and eryfipelas mentioned below, begins with the 

 torpor of fome diftant part of the fyftem. 



The moft frequent primary feat 0f the gout I fuppofe to be 



