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More intense poisonings, by superadding buboes and 

 mortification to other symptoms, bring fungiform dis- 

 eases into close resemblance to the plague. Indeed, 

 when we read first of the course and character of most 

 epidemics, and then turn to the history of cryptogamism, 

 in its diversified groupings, we cannot fail to be surprised 

 at the many points of resemblance. 



The plague is esteemed by many persons, but an ex- 

 aggeration of paludal fever. Mirolanoff, among others, 

 inclines to this sentiment, and says that, at Archial, both 

 officers and soldiers, who had intermittent fevers, were at- 

 tacked with buboes and carbuncles. At Adrianople, Dr. 

 llinx observed that the slighter forms of plague were 

 not distinguishable from intermittent fever, until the ap- 

 pearance of the buboes. Begin and Baudin also concur 

 in the supposition, that plague is of the family of inter- 

 mittents. John Hunter, M.D. of Jamaica, saw carbuncles 

 in intermittent fever. After some continuance the part 

 mortifies. "I have seen this in the scrotum, and also in 

 the foot, and occasionally the loss of a toe." He also 

 enumerates locked jaw as among the incidents of such 

 cases. In 1798 Dr. S. P. Griffitts observed, in one day, 

 two cases of mortification in yellow fever: one around 

 the anus, and the other in a finger. Arujula met with 

 carbunculous cases of yellow fever, and several gangre- 

 nous tumors. 



The Hungarian fever of 1566, presented a kind of 

 crisis by tubercles on the top of the foot, which, if ne- 

 glected, ended in mortification, and many suffered amputa- 

 tion. (Skenkius.) In 1600 there raged throughout Europe 

 a mortal colic, which usually destroyed life within four 

 days. The patient became almost immediately senseless, 

 the hair fell from his head, a livid pustule appeared upon 



