Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan.

Jordan, Henry J.

Date:: 1860

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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There was a sensation of intense, burning heat in the affected part, and this quickly be- came livid, brown, black, and in the end gan- grenous. This malady resembled somewhat that caused by ergotized rye {ergotism), and like this latter affection, the mat des ardens is thought to have been chiefly occasioned by the use of diseased corn for food. Both the gangrenous and simple erysipelas of the middle ages were liable to assume a chronic form, or to lead to certain persistent affections of the skin; and both maladies were so prevalent, that many hospitals were erected for the reception of patients suffering from them, particularly from the St. Anthony’s fire. One of these hospitals existed in Marseilles before the twelfth century, and was known as the hospitale eorum qui igne infernali laborare dicuntur.1 The pestilential development of furuncular or glandular, petechial, and miliary fevers, in the fourteenth and two succeeding centuries, need only be referred to briefly, as the history of these affections at that time has been made familiar to most readers 1 Kaymoud, op. cit., p. 117.