The London medical dictionary: including, under distinct heads, every branch of medicine, viz. anatomy, physiology, and pathology, the practice of physic and surgery, therapeutics, and materia medica ; with whatever relates to medicine in natural philosophy, chemistry, and natural history (Volume 2).

  • Parr, Bartholomew, 1750-1810.
Date:
1819
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Credit: The London medical dictionary: including, under distinct heads, every branch of medicine, viz. anatomy, physiology, and pathology, the practice of physic and surgery, therapeutics, and materia medica ; with whatever relates to medicine in natural philosophy, chemistry, and natural history (Volume 2). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7. Erynifielas. After a fever of three or four days, phlogosis in the face, occasionally in other parts, accompanied, more often suc- ceeded, by delirium; terminating in branny scales. Var. « Intermittens. Erysipelas irregularly re- turning at distant intervals, chronic, with little fever. ■«. Pestia. Asthenic fever, with great internal heat, terminating in bubos of the groin or axilla, sometimes in anthrax. 9. Pemfxhigua. Fever generally typhoid, terminat- ing in vesicles filled with thin ichor; some- times with a lighter coloured serum. 10. Afihtha. Fever followed after a few days by a swelling in the tongue, and a purplish colour on the fauces, terminating in white, frequent- ly distinct, sloughs on the fauces and palate ; frequently with diarrhoea and coeliaca, some- times with haemorrhage. Var. « Maligna. The sloughs of a darker co- lour, leaving, when abraded, a dark ragged ulcer. /3 S/ioradica. Seldom attacking numbers at the same time; the eruption more slightly connected with fever. 1 1. Urticaria, Exacerbating fever; eruptions after each attack, sometimes resembling the sting- ing of nettles, sometimes rising in small pa- pulae ; seldom suppurating, but terminating in dry scabs. 12. Stro/ihulufi. After sickness and uneasiness in new born children, an eruption of red papulx, rising above the skin, frequently coalescing, though sometimes distinct, and filled with a serous fluid. 13. Achor. Swellings in different parts of the body, resembling phlegmons, discharging sebaceous, sometimes puriform, matter, from minute foramina ; fever slight, often indis- tinct. Genus II. Efflorescentia. Eruptions not rising, or rising slightly above the skin, without fe- ver; not epidemic. Sp. 1. Psora. Pustules, at first white, afterwards filling with serum, degenerating into little red inflamed papulae, chiefly between the fingers ; itching, particularly when warm in bed; con- tagious. 2. Prurigo. Itching in diff'erent parts, often without pustules, or with pustules not filling with se- rum ; terminating in branny scales. 3. Lichen. An extensive eruption of papulae, gene- rally connected with internal disease, usually terminating in scurf; recurrent; not contagi- ous. Var. « Purpura chronica scorbutica Hoff'mani. 4. Herfies. Efflorescence, consisting of clusters of small red pustules, itching with a burning heat, and terminating in a branny crust. 5. Phlyctena. Vesicles pellucid, filled with a serous fluid, inflamed at the base ; painful when burst. 5. Petechia. Spots not rising above the skin, re- sembling the bites of fleas, at first red, after- wards of a cinnamon coiour, in succession brown and black, oiien with spontaneous hae- morrhage. 7. Vibex. Marks on the skin in stripes, of a dark brown colour, often mixed with petechiae. 8. Tinea. Ulcers in the hairy scalp, pouring out a fluid concreting into a white friable crust; generally rounded in its figure. 9. Eczema. Small vesicles with considerable itch- ing ; vesicles scarcely distinguishable from papulae, with often an erysipelatous swelling; from the use of mercury. Order IV. PROFLUVIA. A flow of blood, or of secreted fluids, from their respective vessels or ducts; often with fever. Genus I. HiEMORRHAGiA. A discharge of blood. Sp. 1. Efiistaxis. Haemorrhage from the nose, preceded by headach, and often a burning heat in the nose. 2. Stomacace. Blood oozing from the gums, without fever. 3. Hamofitysis. Blood thrown up by coughing, preceded by flushed cheeks, dyspnoea, a sense of weight in the head and breast. 4. Hamatemesis. Blood thrown up by vomiting, preceded by sickness and faintness ; seldom coagulated, generally in considerable quan- tity. Var. » FebriliSf preceded or attended by fever. /3 Asthenica., in weak or scorbutic habits. 5. Melcena. A discharge of a blackish substance . from the stomach or intestines often foliated or filamentous, sometimes verging to a yellow- ish brown colour. 6. Hemorrhois. Blood flowing from the anus, often preceded by pain and load in the head ; fre- quently accompanied by painful, livid tumours near the verge of the anus, or a painful weight within the rectum. 7. Menorrhagia. An unusual flow of blood from the vagina, often with a sense of weight in the loins, and occasionally with a sensa- tion of weight forcing down on the os exter- num. 8. Hematuria. A considerable discharge of blood with the urine, often with violent forcing pains, felt at the extremity of the penis; tenesmus, without sickness. 9. Vicaria. Discharges of blood from diff'erent organs, in consequence of suppressed eva- cuations, or the natural ones not takiner place. ° Var. « JVarium^ from the nose. ^ Pulmonum, horn the lungs. y Fentriculi, from the stornach. iT Venarum hamorrhoidalimn, from the haemorrhoidal veins, t Vesica, from the urinary bladder. I Gingivarunty from the gums. Genus II. Apocenosis. Increased discharges from