[501] Cæl. Aurel. c. 37. p. 161.
[502] Aretæus, p. 192.
[503] Celsus, loc. cit.
[504] For instance, in the villages of Rue-Saint-Pierre and Neuville-en-Hez, between Beauvais and Clermont. Rayer, Suette, p. 74.
[505] Godofredi Welschii Historia medica novum puerperarum morbum continens. Disp. d. 20. April. 1655. Lipsiæ, 4to. The principal work upon the first visitation of miliary fever in Germany.
[506] For example, in the epidemic of 1782, which, during the course of a few months, carried off in Languedoc upwards of 30,000 people. Pujol observed in that epidemic four forms of exanthem. 1. A Purpura urticata—elevated rose-like spots, or papulæ of smaller circumference: it was very favourable, and sometimes passed off without fever. 2. Spots consisting of very small miliary vesicles and pustules which ran into each other: less favourable. 3. Small hemispherical pimples, from the size of a mustard seed to that of a corn of maize. They were surmounted by a white point before they died away, and the large kind became converted into pustules, filled with matter or greyish semitransparent phlyctænæ, with red inflamed bases. This form was the commonest, and extended, mixed with the others, over the whole surface, especially the trunk. 4. An exanthem resembling flea-bites, of a bright red, with a small grey miliary vesicle in the middle, almost invisible, except through a lens: this form was the worst. Pujol, Œuvres diverses de Médecine Pratique, 4 vols. Castres, 1801. 8vo.
[507] Foderé, III. p. 222.
[508] On this point see Allioni, who drew his classical description of miliary fever from the Piedmont epidemics.
[509] Bellot, An febri putridæ, Picardis Suette dictæ sudorifera? Diss. præs. Ott. Cas. Barfeknecht. Paris, 1733. 4to.
[510] Rayer, Suette, p. 426, where the principal passage of Bellot’s dissertation is reprinted word for word.