^4 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1757. 



him about an hour, and found a plentiful perspiration throughout the body ; 

 on which he omitted his bleedings : the clysters were continued ; and towards 

 night he had a proper discharge by stool, very foetid, and inspissated. 



8th. Mr. T. found, for the first time, he had slept last night, and seemed 

 much in spirits : the symptomatic fever something lessened ; and he had purged 

 last night, and this day, 8 times. — On the Qth he had 3 stools ; his neausea 

 much abated ; and a gentle diaphoresis continued. 



10th. The singultus ceased; his vomiting very little; his pulse low^, accelerated, 

 and thread-like in its stroke ; his purging violent ; and he greatly complained 

 of a most acute pain of the wounded parts. A paper of the following absorbent 

 powders was given him every 3 hours in rice-water. Crabs-eyes and red coral 

 prepared, of each 1 dr. crude opium 2 grs : these were made for 3 doses, and 

 given as above. — 11th. He slept well; less pain; pulse more equal ; his diar- 

 rhoea much the same. 



12th. The threads, with which Mr. T. had made the suture of the intestine, 

 came out of themselves : the wound well-conditioned ; fever very little ; his diar- 

 rhoea rather increased. He sent for Mr. T. in the evening, being much alarmed, 

 as he thought some liquids he had taken had passed through the wounded 

 parts. — 13. Yesterday he complained of great pains in his belly: the discharge 

 irom his wound was laudable matter, and in good quantity. 



14th. He rested well, and was seemingly well beyond expectation. His diar- 

 rhoea still continuing troublesome, he took the hartshorn decoction, with an 

 addition of diascordium. — 15th. Mr. T. cut off the threads of the external 

 wound, and continued dressings of digestive in the common method. — l6th. 

 He grew visibly better each day after; and on Sept. 7 th Mr. T. discharged him 

 from any further attendance, his wound being entirely healed over, and he was in 

 all respects very well, free from pain, or any inconvenience from the wound. 

 He was kept 27 days on chicken-broth, and never admitted to use any solids 

 during that time : afterwards he was indulged with young chickens, &c. 



VII. An Account of a Visitation of the Leprous Persons in the Isle of Gua- 

 daloupe. By John Andrew Peyssonel, M. /)., F. R. S. Translated from the 

 French. Dated Aug, 10, 1748. p. 38. 



About 25 or 30 years before the year 1748, a very particular disease appeared 

 in many persons in the island Grande Terre. Its beginning is imperceptible : 

 there appear but a few livid red spots on the skins of the white people, and of a 

 yellowish red on the blacks. These spots in the beginning are not accompanied 

 with pain, or any other symptom ; hut nothing can take them away. The dis- 

 ease increases insensibly, and continues several years in showing itself more and 

 more. These spots increase, and extend indifferently over the skin of the whole 



