570 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1735. 



tremities; some of which seized the arm and fore-arm, and were considerable 

 enough to bring on the death of the patients; others were attended with large 

 gangrenous eschars, which also frequently proved fatal. Of all the remedies, 

 that did service in these disorders, decoctions of the bark, and the sudorific 

 woods, as also that of scorsonera, were most effectual. But if a plentiful mi- 

 liary eruption came on, notwithstanding the relief it seemed at first to procure, 

 the event seldom turned out well. 



The years 1745, 46, and 47, proved tolerably healthy; some disorders of the 

 throat, becoming more common about the end of the last of these 3 years, were 

 the fore-runners of the gangrenous sore throats of 1748. In these cruel dis- 

 tempers, the throat was in the same state with that of the larger intestines in 

 1743. Great and frequent bleedings made the patients go off the sooner. 



There were also this year malignant fevers, that began with rigors, fixed pain 

 in the head, pain about the heart, the fever in appearance very small, yet at- 

 tended with delirium, and often with a miliary eruption. Those who died had 

 the villous coat of the stomach spread over with inflammatory spots, which 

 swelled its substance, and gave it a brownish purple-colour. These spots were 

 in greatest number about the upper orifice of the stomach. The small guts had 

 also some of these spots. Sometimes the glands of the mesentery were found 

 obstructed, where the larger intestines, and other viscera, were in a sound state. 



He cured, or rather stopped the progress of, these distempers, by giving, on 

 the first coming on of the rigors, a cordial and febrifuge electuary.* When 

 the distemper did not yield to this remedy, he had recourse to small bleedings, 

 and gentle physic. Such as were seized naturally with a slight flux, got well 

 with the help of diluting liquors, made a little detersive, such as lemonade; but 

 some of them lasted 40 days, and more. The years 1749, 50, and 51, had the 

 like malignant fevers, some of which were accompanied with violent colics in 

 the beginning, followed with fluxes, which it was found necessary to moderate. 

 He succeeded with 1 or 2 blealings, after which he gave the decoctum album. -^ 



Some of these diseases had the appearance at first, of a slight peripneumony, 

 or cold, with perpetual faint sweats: then followed a drowsiness and stupor, a 

 rambling for some moments at night, the belly puffed up, and uneasy, little or 

 no urine, then a miliary eruption and delirium ; and the patient was carried off 

 in a few days. The stomach in these subjects was inflamed, as also the small 

 guts, by patches. In some there were ulcers, which almost penetrated the sub- 



* Kinkina, 1 oz, ; Venice treacle and rhubarb, of each 4 oz. ; salt of centaury and wormwood, of 

 each 1 dr. ; syr. of mercurialis, q. s. — Orig. 



+ Crumb of bread, 2oz. ; hartshorn-shavings, * oz. ; root of the greater comfrey, cut in slices, 

 1 oz. ; to be boiled in a quart of water for a .J of an hourj strain, and add 1 oz. of diacodiura. 

 —Orig. 



