HERPES. 
ficial, but deep-feated”"in the cheft, which came-on at ‘the 
-elofe, and which was fcarcely to ae allayed by the power of 
opium, | Hoffmann has made a fimilar obfervation; ‘ Inde 
2 i fymptomata estes sey excepto fet = 
G) » nec locu 
affectum coutingere poffet.”” (Loc. ¢ ee vi.) A lels 
eee of this pain is commonly pai of in the fighter 
c 
—The herpes zofter, or fhingles, then, is to be 
‘confidered a as a diltin¢ét eruptive difeafe, and to be claffed 
with the febrile cee as Cullen and Burferius have 
atranged it; but as a variety of eryfipelas. For the 
ett confilts of pastebin diffuted inflammation of the 
fin, with effufion and much {welling ; ; and the elevation of 
the cuticle which accompanies it, ism large irregular bulle ; 
the inflammation too is liable to extend deeply into the muf- 
. 7 uration and any 
eres without affeCting any part below the ‘kin, and 
tumefaction, are characteriftic of this herpes; mot 
to hestion the feverity of the fever connedicd vommbaly 
with the former, and the flight febrile derangement, if any, 
attendant on the latter. It.1s ‘to be diftin 
the-eraptions and ulcerations of the fcin ufua 
arg hanes by the fame regularity of its courfe and l- 
mited duration. This is obferved by Burferius : * Zoller 
Rots brevis ut plurimum merbus eft ; nam “aan oh 
‘Lorryuset chronicum, et. iit 
(quod. de igne facro.late fumpt 
eit) thane fp 
pto o fortaffe ei concedeudum 
eciem tamen -diutinam — — - (Lee, cit. 
3. § 52.) Many writers, indeed, » dt 
A which belong to p> ea ee even the Zeffer ; 
but we are difpofed to believe that, either’ fuch ulcers were 
the refult of Dieses originally pujlular, and belanging ‘to 
impetigo, Gr ranting tetter ; or that the bufy hand of -e 
art has i interfered, in the cdfe.of the zofter, and interr 
the ‘hedling procefs. of nature. For we believe that: 
Whereas the clutters of imail tranfparent tw 
cuithed, too, from 
‘origin, nor was a fecond perfon wrt to ag the difeafe 
from any one of the individaalé all re would feem 
to be aipredifpofition to it in chee ‘etpecially in the female 
oe for the cafes jut mentioned oceurred in females, mottly 
=t oung females, with a very few exceptions which appeared 
in boys. 
Some-authors have deemed the herpes zofter a mali 
and dangerous difeafe, as Platner and Hoffmann; and 
gius has defcribed two cafes “pote, in noblemen, which 
proved fatal. (Epitt. Medicin. p. 110.) We have no 
doubt, however, from the webdant which he gives of thefe 
cafes, a he was miftaken in referring them to oe difeafe 
in que orry and Geoffroy vg cor co 
~ the thingies as free from danger (fee Geoffroy, in Hitt. 
de la ae. Roy. “dip ri nT ; and Burferius afferts 
em, he al Ata Of the twenty- 
siratahdens on hae potas to se: not one ex 
operation, - 
morbidanatter, Bi Poa wpeonet many wae aguintt the 
owever, 18 con 
he -early:and free ufe of an, “eg pil This out} _ 
‘tradi@ed by experience. vof evacuati 
the alimentary canal be prejndicial, sates ‘h pot 
has led to ‘much more pernicious prattice, in 
nag gwame cere t etn vee We ae not iho ‘it 
necefiary to any particu ations to the clufters 
of paired —. apt when vies sc are rubbed off, as they 
form of he ehavatterifed in Ate co ‘by are liable'to be, by the'friétion of the clothes, and a flight 
Clufters of as ake Gan courfe, and the jittle difcharge of a sare th me vo nl inl which occafi 
ulcers which enfue, when the furface is broken, oe the linen to ‘adhere to ae We eh 
far se_bedl fpontaneoully in about fourteen » ~~. _ - ae — interpoted a ower ns confer fob oo 
0 
rate this immmediately, when {peaking rocarsectinte pectad ings ocdpey word mnaie” y Bac 
"Refpedting the: caufes of herpes, it ie ~ more rational fome, ‘were the refult of the buy bane o athe od 
-toiacknowkedge ‘our total ignorance, than to,attempt, by ‘Thus T'urner, when the ach wpuir of Snetiediony” 
wey, egathtacal {peculations, to defcribe cones ‘nature of © she ufed to “ fnip the heads of ~~, hes Me Prt , 
morbid humours, which difeafe, orto refer and theo‘apply a foft rag Seo Tuck oeeere 
‘the-produgtion of thefe. secon to any ‘particular mode of ‘prevent furt pee or with bis own ce- 
diet, as authors have generally done. Tor ‘affuredly ihe: ta é ea meee spe mei gh te Ae ode of ¢ 
‘Nation has not .enabled-us to deduce any fatisfa ae, merchant eruption ming 
Clufions on the fubje@. -Galen‘and his numerous folloents, away the humour, wh Paget the veficles, irritate 
both. ancient and modern, confidered :the herpetic veficles | (in itonavural Bec ie stat ee 
“88-an effufion of bile; ‘but fome -of ‘them believed that the ‘them with thevred 
eries was not purely bile, but an intermixture.of pituita ‘thie 
oo venion 4 See Sennertus, Prac. Med. |. lib. v. «cap. 27.) 
pws ‘be aoaattic acrid humour, partaking of a 
utrefaction, carried ‘outwards, and —— 
of authors ; and in twenty wo cafes, which mee = you spc eg Tare ao she ifeafe 
payers beyond 
sepinpsstmesce res aos 
