A methodical system of nosology / translated from the Latin of Doctor William Cullen ; by Eldad Lewis.

  • Cullen, William, 1710-1790.
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[1808]
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    64 Erysipelas pestilens, S. sp. 5.* Erysipelas contagiosum, S. sp. 9. II. Erysipelas ('pklyctccnodea]) with an erythema, composed of many pimples, occupying chiefly the trunk of the body, and soon ending in phlyctana, or small blisters. Erysipelas Zoster, S. sp. 8. Zona of Russel. The shingles of the English. Zona ignea of Hoffman. Herpes Zoster, S. sp. 9. Erysipelas a veneno, S. sp. 3. is symptomatic. The other species of Sauvage belong to the eryth- ema. Genus XXXI. MILIARIA.}: * -This and the following seem to be oniy fevers, with a symp- tomatic erythema. It may however be proper to remark here, that tVe erysipelas has often something in its nature, of a putrid and gangrenous tendency; and I have no doubt, but that tlm dis- ease, which in this Country, is generally accompanied with an in- flammatory diathesis, is sometimes, especially in hot climates, at- tended with a putrid disposition of the humours ; and perhaps two species of erysipelas ought to have been instituted, inflammatory and putrid ; but with the latter I am not sufficiently acquainted. \ Whether this species, and the erysipelas vesiculosiim, ought with propriety to be referred to the same genus, I much doubt: but the skilful must ju i Physicians, those of Vienna especially, have lately disputed very warmly, concerning the nature of the miliar) liver ; and chiefly whether it is not always a symptomatic, and n« < original disease. I dare not assert, contrary to the sentiments of all physicians, from the middle of the s h century, almost to the present day, and the opinion of many respectable coti rary Physicians, that the disease is never original. But well knowing the fallacy of experience in such cases, and that the gen- erality of Physicians are, at best, only a servile race of imitators!