Miscellaneous works of the late Robert Willan : Comprising An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition: and detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications. / Edited by Ashby Smith.

  • Robert Willan
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1821
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Credit: Miscellaneous works of the late Robert Willan : Comprising An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition: and detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications. / Edited by Ashby Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    century, and ~ the latter terms are yet em- ployed by the natives. The authority of Iialy f. Abbas, of Constantinus Africanus, and others, will confirm what I have just now said. Haly observes, “ The Al-gidri (Variolae) are numerous small ulcerations affecting the whole or the greater part of the surface of the body, which the antients called Anthrakes; but which the (Syrian) Greeks and Arabians called Daughters of Fire Constantine, who chiefly acquired his knowledge of medi- cine in Egypt, Syria, and Persia, though he wrote in the Roman language, and adopted the term Variolae j-*, says of the disease, “ Antiqui vocant has Ignis carbones, Syri, filias Ignis J.” Respecting the first appear- ance of the eruption, he observes, in another place, 44 nascuntur pruritae (that is, tingling papulae) quae vocantur ignitae prunae.” During the period stated by Dr. Freind (page 18), the Small-pox was, by the Eu- ropean Greeks, termed LoimikG This ap- * Theorice, lib. viii. cap. 14? and cap. 9. f This term (Vaiuolo) had been used several centuries before his time, by the Italians, as will appear hereafter. | Commun. Loc. Med. Lib. [Lib. viii. cap. 14-. p. 226.] These passages tend to confirm the propriety of the read- ing in Eusebius’s account. Note at page 6. C 2