Note 670 — BOOK I.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

This case, as Galen remarks, is interesting from the suddenness of the fatal result. We should not hesitate nowadays to set it down as a case of malignant erysipelas; the pain, swelling, and bullæ of the foot and ankle must have been of this nature. By the way, these bullæ, when not followed by suppuration, are represented in the Coacæ Prænotiones, as a fatal symptom. Galen thinks it strange that this patient was not bled, but accounts for it by supposing that Hippocrates had been called in too late. He remarks on this case in the Second Book of his work On Difficulty of Breathing.