Note 705 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

The history of the epidemical erysipelas here described cannot fail to prove interesting to the modern reader. I need scarcely remark that epidemics of a similar nature are occasionally met with in Great Britain at the present day. I myself have encountered two such epidemics in the locality where I am now writing, the one in 1823, and the other in 1846. As described by Hippocrates, the disease sometimes supervened upon a slight injury, and generally terminated in gangrene. On epidemical erysipelas, see De Haen (Ratio Medendi), Bartholinus (Hist. Anatom. Rat. Hist., 56), Wells (Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge), Cooper’s Surgical Dictionary; and Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine, under Erysipelas.