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Show I Chap. V- Of the Cuticle of Bar/c5 and Timur. 55 T‘ Skin in the Meafles, Small Pox, Scarlet Fevers, St. Aizrlwnie: Fire, or Eryflpelus, Itch, Tetters, Leprofies and the like. . . CHAP. V, The Meallcs and Small Pox are fomewhat alike in Nature and Cure, Trilgxflo‘fi‘: :_mda1‘C both called by the Grecian: in a general name of agony/am but the hanks. W Sinxll pox, are {tiled more peculiarly by the Title of writ/Ia. 0f Tat/20109 [,becificr/ in man} fozzfleEz‘iom and gym/er of tl/aaCuti-cula and Cutis; the outward 7 and inward Slain. Whercuponthe linall Pox are Tome times complicated with the Mealles, as liming affinity with each other, which I (aw in a Kentilh Gentlewoman, in whom the pimples of the Skin were interfperlEd with Various red Alperities; themarks of the Meafles, and blew fpots, the Shades of a more fatal Aving defcribed the rare contexture of the Cantu/i1 and Cutir, ofthc finer and thicker Vefiments, encircling the Body oFMan, coulilling of various Vellels and Fibres, rarely inter‘fperled, and interwoven with each other, and accompanied with numerous minute Glands, dilcllai‘ging the hot llcams, and watry and faline parts of the Blood, in Sweat, through the ex« cretory Veflels, terminating into the Pores of the outward Skin, and the comparate Anatomy of the Skin in Fill], Infeéts, and Plants. My aim at this time is to Treat of the cutaneous fymptomes, as [hadows attending different diltempers, and of various Difeali's, lodged prin~ pear, Symptoms. tended with the pain of the Head and Back, the forerunners of this noi~ "mom" Small Pox ties and Veins, into the left Cifiern of the Heart, and afterwards through the greater Trunks , and {mallet Branches in the cutaneous Glands, as {0 many colatories of the Blood, in which a lhcretion is made, of the thin- ner part of the bilious Humours, and tranfinitted through the excretory Units of the Skin to the fiirfaee of the Body, defacing its white Robe, new died with Yellow, derived from bilious Humours, {evcrcd from the Purple Liquor. The Skin is (llltlrlhlll'fi‘fl in PCt‘l'l ritk Ililieuay ' lignant .' s aml [va l'lagnemith And fometimes this fine vaile of the outward Skin is bel‘peckled with va~ rious unnatural colours, imparted to it by fcorbutic diliempers, malignant Fevcrs, and the Plague, marking the {ick with Red, Purple, Livid and ' Black Charac‘ters, as to many emblems of different l)ifealbs, flowing from Rethl'lu'ple, Il\‘lll,2lll(l Black Spots, "lllLllflrc fornctimcs tritital,and other times 1') mptomatital. 'l'lic Shir is alloolnioxinustodirrrs S"c|hn;;s.l_ll"'iSLabi and Swifts, attortlingm variety urDi(Rafts. rifings of the Skin, accompanied with a continued Fever, ariling ( asI concei\'c)from ebullition of Blood, which is tranfinitted by the capillary Arteries into the cutaneous Glands, when the impure parts of the Blood are percolated, and thrown through the excretory Duets into the‘ Skin, highly tinged with a Red hue, and rendred rough by fome extravalared particles, inhnuated into the lecret paflhges of the Skin; whereupon it is made unequal by many minute protuberancies, which foon grow ripe and dilap- cipally in the inward, and fomewhat ali‘eéling the outward Skin, which being thin, and iiilEiifibIe is lefs obnoxious to Dilcafes, and more liable to This beautiful Vaile is {ometime deformed in its furface with a yellow hue in the laundies, primarily caufed by the obllrué'tions of the cholidoc Duel, not difcharging the bilious parts of the Blood, percolated by the hepatic Glands into the Duodeuum, whence the Liver being opprefl'ed with too great a proportion of choleric Matter, lodged firft in the iiiterflices of the Vellcls, is follicitcd to throw it oH‘with the mals of Blood, into the extremity of the Cava, through whole Trunk it is conveyed into the right Chamber of the Heart, and thence impelled by the pulmonary Arte» the skin is vmgttl Hill) \‘ Hi {2 . lMlmliCS, DileaIe. The Meafles are much lefsthen the other in bulk,and are afperities, or finall the leis or greater indifpolition of the Blood, difperletl into the cutaneou s Glands by which form thin Particles (being leveled from the mals of Blood) are diltharged through the excretory Duéis, into the Conline s olithc Bo~ dy,vari cgated with different (pots, W'hich fornetimes prove critical, as giving alleviation to Patients, and are good omens of Recovery. and other times are ill fymptomes, {peaking a derperate licknels, and as {0 many Black Characters, in which we may plainly read the fatal Ptroke of death. And {'0 I pals from Shadows to Subfiauces, from Symptomes to Difcnfes, produce d The Small Pox is a much greater, and more troublefome dillempers, at- the dcfirip- ionic Dileafe; the firl't arifing from the Blood, having recourfe through 3,2,6;ng the carotide Arteries to the Membranes of the Brain, which are highly af- offhcbms" fliéted with its great ell‘ervefcence; and the pain of the Back proceedeth al- Poznan: palnoftn: lo from a great ebullition of Blood, Whole Compage being very much ex- Sharia" panded by unnatural heat, puHEtli up the delcendent Trunk of the Aorta 3 whereupon the adjoyning vertebral Nerves are much dilcompofed and rot- tured with pain. The Throat is Very much inwardly fwelled in the [mall Pox, which is derived from the Matter of the Difeafe, carried bythe carotide Arteries into the tonfillary Glands, which being tumefied, do difcotnpofe the fauces, and entrance of the Gulet, and lelTening its cavity, do makeadifliculty of fwallowing. Another fymptomc, a concomitant of this vexatious dillemper, is a Arorethroat, Cough, proceeding from a grofs Matter, commonly called Flegme, which 33%;?" is an indigel'ted SltffltJ‘ nutririm, dicharged by the excretory Duets of the 33$:ng fallval Glands, all befetting the Palate, Tongue, and Fauces, which in the $313355; Flux-Pox emit large ltreams of falival Liquor, difeharging in a great part \'all.lquor,a the foulnefs of the Blood, and the malignity of the Fever, in free and fiffilfihilg, critical evacuations of Vitiated recrements of the Blood, through the nume- rousconglomerated Glands in and about the Tongue, Palate, and Fauces, asif a Ptyalifine was railed by a Mercurial Medicine. And before, and in the time of the Salivation in this ill kind of finall Pox, acrude, thin, and ferous Liquor is protruded by the capillary Arteries into the Glands (the inhabitants of the Skin, where it is feparated from the Blood, and Forced through the excretory Tubes to the furface of theinc \Vard Skin, where the Matter being very thin and fiuide, is not readily confined within the due limits. of many round prominent circumferences, made in the outward Skin, but runneth confided one part with another, which is occafioned by the thiniiels, and lharpnefs of the Matter, often, 1% wiliartz conformatione pap-rim" a e€farumin rule, whet}; elegant texture is highly dilordercd, and its beautiful Figure defaced in unlimral colours, Afperities, Inflamations, Schllings, Ulcers, incident to €316 corroding like Jana-form the rare contexture of the Skin, (integrated of Cl'in keth u.. numerous Filaments, varioufly intangled with each other) In which it ma- |