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An essay on the diagnosis between erysipelas, phlegmon, and erythema : with an appendix, touching the probable nature of puerperal fever / George Hume Weatherhead.

  • Weatherhead, G. Hume (George Hume), 1790?-1853.
Date:
[1819]
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Credit: An essay on the diagnosis between erysipelas, phlegmon, and erythema : with an appendix, touching the probable nature of puerperal fever / George Hume Weatherhead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tam not aware that a purely erythematous affection of these parts is attended with arty peculiar danger or symptoms. The danger ensuing from the sudden re- ~ pulsion of erysipelas, has been noticed by most writers on this disease, and in this re- spect it resembles the other exanthemata. Hippocrates observes, ‘‘ Erysipelas vero foris quidem extare utile, zntro autem vergens lethale ; cujus quidem rei indicium est, cum rubore eva- nescente pectus gravatur et segrius spiritum / trahit zger ;’’* and in his aphorisms, “ Erysi- pelas fores intro converti, malum, intro vero foras existere, bonum.’’+ Galen, in his’ com- mentary on this last passage, says—‘ Non ery- sipelas solum, sed alium quemcunque affectum ex profundis et principibus partibus ad cutem traduci, et bonum signum et bonam causam esse existimandum est ; contra vero ad internas ~ et profundas corporis partes remigrare, malum.” # Coac. Prenot. §. ii. § 366. + Aph. 25. § vi. |