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LiNNiEus defines the Phlegmon to be " a tenfe 



throbbing tumour, or enlargement of a part, 

 " accompanied by fever, and attended with heat 

 " and rednefs." This he confiders as fuggelb- 

 ing alfo the idea of all the foregoing internal in- 

 flammations. 



The generical charader in the Fhlogiftk clafs of 

 our author, does not arife whplly from the part 

 affedted fuppofed to be the feat of the difeafe, 

 but from the gems of the attending fever alfo. 

 Thus he defines " the Hepatitis to be the Amphi- 

 " merina^ attended with a difficult refpiration, 



cough without ,expe6loration, hiccup, and a 



fenfe of heat and tenfion in the right J:)ypO' 

 " chondre.'*' " The Nephritis is a Synochus^ attend- 

 " ed with naufea, hiccup, eru6lation, urine vari- 

 " ous, coftivenefs, burning lumbago, and numb- 

 " nefs down ihe thigh." 



In this clafs Linn^:us has followed Sauvages in 

 dividing the difeafes into Membranacei, and 

 pARENCHYMATici, a divifion neglefted by Dr, 

 Cullen, from the difficulty of determining the feat 

 of the inflammation. 



The Phlegmone^ being external, is ranked by 

 Sauvages among his VITIA. On the other hand. 

 Dr. Culkn gives it the firll: place in his order Ph leg- 

 MASi-^E and has reduced thirteen genera of Lin- 

 N^us's, and twelve of Sativages's, to the rank of 

 [pedes ^ under the term Fhlogofts \ further, account- 

 ing Abfcefs^ Puftide^ Gangrene^ and Sphacelus^ af? 

 cfFeds only of Phlogofis^ and therefore not entitled 



