Note 391 — ON AIRS, WATERS, AND PLACES.
Francis Adams translation
Frequent mention of this disease of the skin occurs in the works of the ancient writers on medicine. See Paulus Ægineta, Vol. II., 40. We have there stated that it would appear to have been some species of Eczema, with which we are now unacquainted. Coray has a very lengthy note on it, but arrives at no satisfactory conclusions on the subject. He brings into review three cutaneous diseases, namely, the bouton d’Alep.. (described, Mémoir. de la Société Royale de Médic., année 1777, 1778, t. i., p. 313;) the pelagre, (described, Toaldo, Essai Méteorolog., pp. 19, 20; Comment. de Rebus in Scient. Nat. et Médec. Gestis., tom. xxxi., p. 553; and Journ. de Médec. tom. lxxx., p. 272;) and the lepre des Asturies or mal de la rosa, (described by Thieri, Journ. de Médec., tom. ii., p. 337.)