Excerpt from An Account of Epidemic Erysipelas as It Prevailed in Some Parts of Ohio Grave and much more serious is that form of erysipelas where the dermoid tissue seems to be the seat of a burning pain, a high degree of inflammation, and considerable tume faction. Here we have fever of the synochus grade, and more or less disturbance of the secretions. The eruption in this variety exhibits a great tendency to spread. Occurring as is commonly the case, first upon the neck or face, it trav els to the head. Breast, shoulder, or superior extremities. Usually it does not extend much below the dermoid tissue, but seems to spend the principal force of its morbid ac tions in producing inammation of the skin itself, and the ef fusion of serum between its laminae. From the fact that the effusion of serum gives to the skin a swelled doughy appear ance, this variety, by pretty general consent, has been de nominated the cedematous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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