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‘ . . CHRONEC DISEASES. 
Afthenia - - A 
' “Syncope and Hyfteria = < 
St. Vitus’s Dance = es 
“Epilepfy is > ~ 
Cephalxa > age 
Apoplexy - 
“Cough and Dyfpnea = - 
Pulmonary Confumption - ie 
‘Hemorrhagy from the Lungs e 
-Hemorrhagy fromthe Stomach | - 
Bilious Vomiting = - 
~Dyfpepfia © 
~Gaftrodynia = i 
Enterodynia « . 
Diarrhea - - - 
Fluor Albus - = = 
"Menorrhagia = 
Chlorofis and Amenorrhea : 
‘Droply - = 21) tie ei a 
“Chronic Rheumatifm - . 
Lumbago.and Selatica “ 
“Scrophula ~ - 
~ Jaundice - - 
- Gravel and Dyfury > - 
Worms - 
. Hemorrhoids = 2 SOS 
Hernia . ~ - 
Scalled Head - 2 
Xtch and Prurigo ° > 
Tooth Rath ° - 
Boils - - - 
Scaly, Tettar - - 
Gutta Refea oe pi 
Noli me tangere - - 
Erythema = - - 
Purpura - = = 
Chronic Nettle Rath = 2 
PERIODICAL DISEASES. 
FT ertian ts = S I 
Hemicranium - - XY 
Heética Senilis - B 3 
Jt is.obferved by Sydenham, that the 
sneafles, when epidemieal, ufually com- 
anence an January or February, and are 
.vapidly diffufed till the vernal equinox ; 
', that the morbillous coniftitution 1s then 
at its aemé, and afterwards gradually 
declines till midfummer, becoming ex- 
tingét in the month of July. Having, 
_ however, paid attention to the fubjeét tor 
. many years paft, I am-thence enabled to 
fay, there is no fuch regularity in the 
commencement, progre{s, and decline of 
this difeafe. It has often been-epidemi- 
ca] during the months of November and 
December. has nearly .ceafed ia the 
{pring feafon ; and has been again exten- 
fively diffufed after Midfummer. 
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Expericnce, likewife, affards fuficient 
yeafon to controvert the truth. of a pofi- 
tion made by feveral medical authors ; 
that epidemical contagious difeafes fuc- 
ceed each other in a certain order, or fe- 
ries ; fome of them predominating for a 
Account of Difeafesin London: 
mel uly, 
feafon, to the exclufion -of the reft. On 
the contrary, it is in general found, that 
the fmall-pox, meafles, fcarlet fever, and 
hooping-cough, become epidemical about 
the fame time *, and continue their pro- 
grefs, though not always in.equal degrees 
or proportions: this :has been uniformly 
the cafe in Lendon, according to my own 
obfervations, for twelve fucceffive years. 
The part of the year which, in this 
climate, mof favours the propagation of 
contagious-difeafes, 1s the autumnal! fea- 
fon, and the beginning of winter ; or 
the time between the end of Auguft, 
and the middle of December. The pro- 
grefs of malignant fevers, of the fimall- 
pox, and fcarlatina anginofa, 1s checked 
by the firft frof tn December: but the 
meafles and ‘hooping-cough fometimes 
continue their-courfe through the winter, 
without much abatement. mee 
‘In two cafes -of meafles; within the 
prefent:month, a circumftance occurred, 
which -merits attention. The previous 
fever, and the catarrha! {ymptoms, hay- 
ing been moderate, or rather fligt ; the 
eruption took place, in the ufual form, 
on the fourth day, and ‘was difiributed 
over the face, breaft, and arms: it dif- 
appeared two or three days afterward. 
and notomplaint feemed to remain. Ip 
the fuceceding night, however, a vialent 
fever cofamenced, and in the morning 
a frefh eruption appeared, which was 
diffufed nearly over the whole body.— - 
his fecand ‘ftage of the diforder was 
attended throughout with much. fever, 
with inflammation of the eyes, a conftant 
troublefome cough, andadiarrhea. The 
eruption went off, along with the fever, 
in four days: the cough and diarrhea 
continued fome time longer.. Thus, the 
whole duration of the difeafe was twelxe. 
days, etyht of whigh were occupied by 
the two eruptions. Both the above pa- 
tients were confined, after the firft ap- 
pearance of the rath, to their bed-cham- 
bers, in which an uniform temperature 
was preferveds fo that the renewal of 
the difeafe could not be caufed- by any 
check given to it in the firft ftage, from 
expofure to cold. A double fever, and 
two fucceffive eruptions, I never before 
remarked in the meafles, nor is it men- 
tioned by praétical writers. Thefe cir- 

* Ballonius de Epidemiis, lib. 1,2.and Con- 
fult. Med..libsi, 
Fr. Nola. de Epidemio Phlegmone Anginofo, 
Nearoli, 1620, p. 13. ; 
Dr. Withering on the Scarlet Fever-and Sore 
Throat, at Birmingham, 5778, .p. 33, 2d edit. 
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