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vomiting, suppuration of the parotids, buboes, carbuncles, 

 especially on the head and hands. 



Gualtier de Claubry abounds in descriptions of gan- 

 grenous fevers of a low type. Thus in the typhus at 

 Mayence, in 1813, and 1814, there was " often gangrene 

 of the extremities." At Forgau, in 1813, there was " often 

 gangrene of the extremities." In the hospital at Langres, 

 in 1806, there was sometimes " dry gangrene of the feet/' 

 Fouquier, in describing a fever in the department of the 

 Moxelle, in 1813, speaks of partial gangrenes on the sur- 

 face of the body. 



Thouvenel, a physician at Pont a Mousson, describes a 

 febrile gangrene of projecting parts. Roux, Gilbert, Des- 

 castaing, Reveille, Parise, Frisal, Bom, Mauguis, Thou- 

 venel, Fleury, Latourette, Robert, Fouquier, Gras, Castel, 

 &c., mention, as events in fever, partial gangrene of the 

 nose, ears, fingers, toes, and the loss even of a whole 

 limb. So also, John Hunter, McGregor, Pringle, Griffitts, 

 Hillary, Deveze, Fellowes, Arejula, and others, describe, 

 as accidents of yellow and other fevers, mortification of 

 the stomach, intestines, lungs, arms, legs, and scrotum. 



One of the most striking examples of a gangrenous 

 fever, presented itself in the village of Deerfield, in New 

 England, of which the following account is extracted 

 from the Walpole Observatory, of the 9th Nov., 1807. 

 "On Tuesday, 2d September, 1807, Joshua Fink, an un- 

 married man, of about 25 years of age, returned from 

 Hartford in Connecticut, to his father's house in Deerfield, 

 where he became very ill, but finally recovered his health. 

 On the 25th, twenty-three days after his return, his mother, 

 Amy Fink, and his niece, who had nursed him in his illness, 

 were attacked with chilliness and vomiting, followed by 

 excruciating pains and soreness throughout their whole 



