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Show ' Wetzlar Epidemic. 15 fourth time-disregarding the presence of menstruation; which the force of the disease occa sioned to anticipate, or to recur though soon after the regular period. Bleeding in the leg does not disturb this evacuation; or else suppresses it only in consequence of becoming its substitute. Practitioners are welljaware, that these untoward circumstances just take place in EPIDEMIC OF 'WETZLAR. An epidemic of later date than that of Aumale, apparently far more extensive in its range, and differing considerably in its manner of attack, found an observer equally decisive in his opinions and practice, and more comprehensive in his views. For he traces the appear- charge rarely relieves, and that in such cases inaction is often fatal." ances in the subsequent stages to that inflam- ache left me still any thing to dread, I opened thejugular, and repeated this operation when ne- cessary. I took care to keep the bowels open by clysters from day to day. The beverage was a simple ptisan with some nitre. livery evening, "win sion. In the beginning and height this would have been hurtful." diseases, to baffle us; that the menstrual dis- " After four or five bleedings in the arm as well as the leg, if the obstinacy of the head- r li 17 Epidemic Malignant Fever. I prescribed an emulsion, with some grains of sedative salt. After the first bleedings, I had the satisfaction to find the skin become soft mation of the brain, which, according to him, constitutes the first stage. His reasoning is perfectly consistent in itself, and agreeable to the most firmly established doctrines of pathology. The following is' a summary of the account of this epidemic. During the first of the recent wars on the continent, a camp fever spread from the military hospitals to Wetzlar and the adjacent country. It continued to rage without intermission, from The moisture continued to the the winter of1794-5 till the succeeding August. During this period, the author, Dr. \Vendel- 11th or 14th day, when an inconsiderable ehrystalline miliary eruption arose on the arms, stadt of Wetzlar, had at once from ten to thirty and moist. This lasted five or six patients constantly under his care. The earliest symptoms were shiverings, cold. days, carrying off the residue of the symptoms. lt~ any fever were left, it became intermittent, extremities, blue lips and nails, dilficulty of chest, and abdomen. and yielded to purgatives. At the close I added diaeodium, in small doses, to the emul- swallowing, inflamed fauces, dreadful headache, and frequent change ofcolour. The chill was followed by excessive burning, by full, sion. 0 quick, |