[1247] Preface to 3rd ed. of Obs. Med., Greenhill’s ed. p. 16.
[1248] Sydenhami Opera, ed. Greenhill, 1844, p. 243.
[1249] Maton, Med. Trans. Col. Phys. V., having seen an extensive epidemic attended by a red rash in one of the great public schools, was disposed to erect it into a new type of roseola, owing to its mildness, while he admitted that it was the same as Sydenham’s scarlatina simplex. Macmichael (New View of the Infection of Scarlet Fever, 1822, p. 78) thought that this was “rather a proof of extreme refinement,” and that there was no need to give it a new designation. Gee, Brit. Med. Journ., 1883, II. 236, cites this “refinement” of Maton’s as one of the noteworthy things in the history of the diseases of children in this country.
[1250] Sir Robert Sibbald, M.D., Scotia Illustrata, sive Prodromus Historiae Naturalis. Edin. 1684. Lib. II. cap. 5, p. 55.
[1251] Richard Morton, M.D. Pyretologia. 2 vols. London, 1692-94, II. 69.
[1252] Engl. transl. 1737, p. 80. The reference by Dover (Ancient Physician’s Legacy, 1732, p. 117), is almost in the words of Sydenham, his master: “This is a fever of a milder kind than the measles [of which latter he did not remember anyone’s dying till about twenty-five years since], and does not want the assistance of a doctor. The skin seems to be universally inflamed, but the inflammation goes off in forty-eight hours.”
[1253] Edin. Med. Essays and Obs. III. 26.
[1254] Obs. de aere et morb. epid.
[1255] H. Warren, M.D., On the Malignant Fever in Barbados. London, 1740, p. 73.
[1256] Le Cat, in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 49: In 1736 and 1737, a prevalence of gangrenous sore-throats which chiefly attacked children. They reappeared in 1748 in young persons of the first distinction, not only at Rouen, but also at St Cyr, near Versailles, and at Paris.