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

  • Cullen, William, 1710-1790.
Date:
[1808]
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Credit: A methodical system of nosology / translated from the Latin of Doctor William Cullen ; by Eldad Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A continual fever, with anxiety, frequent sighings, fetid sweats, and pricking of the skin. On an uncertain day of the disease, small, red, distinct pimples, break out, very thick, over the whole body, except the face, whose apices, after one or two days, appear like small white pustules, that continue but for a short time. Miliaria of Linnceus* Miliaris of Sauvage and Sugar. Febris miliaris of \Togel. Febris purpurata rubra and alba miliaris of Hoffman. Febris purpurea or miliaris of Juncier. Der friesel of the Germans. The following belong to the idiopathic species, if any such there be. Miliaris benigna, S, sp. 1. Miliaris maligna, S sp. 2. Miliaris rccidivans, S. sp 3. Miliaris Gerfnanica, S. sp, 5. 1 must necessarily remain in doubt; but however it may be, 1 certainly know, from frequent observation for many years, that ihe miliary fever is generally symptomatic : 1 never saw it conta- gious, nor manifestly epidemic, though at times it would be more Frequent than usual. It sometimes accompanied febrile disor- ders, both inflammatory and putrid ; yet in no instance, but when excited by too hot a regimen, or sudorifics ; and many times, when the disease was expected, the Patient escaped it wholly, by avoiding* sudorifics, and using- a moderate regimen, I have several times seen the disease excited, as it were, by art, in some parts of the body. Lastly, the matter of the miliary fever, (if .-my such there be,) is not similar to most specific contagions, because the eruption does not appear at any certain period of the disease, and because it attacks people, not once only, but many times during life. I therefore much doubt of the specific nature of this matter, or of its being capable of producing* an original disease. And I am much pleased to find myself supported in this opinion, by the experienced and learned Charles White, in his treatise on the management of lying-in Women. But being sensible, that I may be deceived on this subject, and being unwilling to deceive others, I have here placed the miliary fever, among the exanthemata, and have given it such a character, as will probably be acceptable to those who consider it an origi- nal disease ; leaving the subject to the more accurate decision of the skilful. H