Note 701 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.
Francis Adams translation
Galen remarks that erysipelas is occasioned by a bilious defluxion, but that it is not always of a malignant and putrid nature; on the contrary, when the defluxion is mild, and the bile which produces it is natural, it is not attended with any considerable injury to the body, if properly managed; but that the humor which produced the erysipelas about to be described was not such, but of a malignant, corrosive, and septic nature, being engendered by the humid and calm state of the weather in such persons as were of a choleric constitution.