Practical information on St. Anthony's fire, or erysipelas : and on erythematous affections in general; as also on the measles; in which new modes of treatment are communicated / By E. Peart.

Peart, E. (Edward), 1756?-1824.

Date:: 1802

Credit: Practical information on St. Anthony's fire, or erysipelas : and on erythematous affections in general; as also on the measles; in which new modes of treatment are communicated / By E. Peart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Erythema appears to me to be merely a milder degree of eryfipelas, and as it has always readily yielded to the fame remedy, I (hall con- fider it as fuch. Erythema, however, is frequently excited by local flimulus, and in fome cafes by certain ftimuli taken into the flomach, which, when received into the blood, adt as ftimulants upon the fkin, and induce erythema, as I have occa- fionatly witneffed numbers of times. I know one gentleman in particular, who by taking a few grains of the refin of guaiacum, is certain to have an erythematous affedtion of the hands or eyes in the courfe of a few hours. Such affec¬ tions are but flight in general, and not preceded \ by fever; on the contrary, eryfipelas is com- monly ufhered in by a confiderable degree of fever, and in fevere cafes with much fever and delirium* Erythema, when very confiderable, or when improperly treated, may, however, foon * become attended with fever fufficient to give it all the dangerous importance of eryfipelas. As \$