Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1830-12-30
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| rive give place to the following communication of
Dr. Abbe-but it will be the las, upon this subject that
we shall publish unless the controversy is transferred
to our advertising columns.]
! FOR THE ENQUIRER.
| Mr.. Adams
! We reply to the communication from DR.. Buel, in
your last weeks paper with the utmost Difference and
feel willing to award to him dsiReresledness and a
desire 10 communicate correct intelligence. Believing
his communication incorrect, from Of sufficient
information, therefore doubt not but he will be
gra,ifed to peruse the facts feel able present.
He first that Ignis Sacer, Of the ancients,
was variety Of Erysipelas. To show that he is ill.,
correct in this particular, will refer him to the
learned aud interchangeable DR.. Good " Under the
tresent and the preceding species tErylhema Vescu.
lare and E. Gangr@nosum) included the Ignis acer
Of the ancients about which much has been written,
but which has been seldom understood" The DR..
then asserts that he :" has taken pains upon the
subject and trusts be will be able to establish the true
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common error has consisted in making the Z9nis Sacer
an e'yspelas," GOOD, I'd vol. page 2O7-8.) Hethen
ascriGcs the entire merit Of correct description Of
the Ignis SGcer CELSIUS, and after reciting his first
species, says, "Cesns then passes describe his
second species, Uich answers to the character and al
most to the cords Of srythem0 gangypnosum." This
he asserts at least ioMr times in his works, besides
giving the original text, with literal translation and
also elegant one, that the profession may not mis-
apprehend him (page 2O9.)
In connection with this subject no reciles the fol-
lowing from Lucreius:
a. e. stimuli ulceribus quasi inustis. omne rubere
"Corpus, ut est per menbra EGcerquam didtur lgna"
"Wde-iinged with purple dye and brundished DER
{" With trails Of caustic ulcers, like the blaze
"Strewd by the Holy F1e'
alt is perfectly clear them" says DR.. Good that
the Ignis Sacer Of the Roman writer's an ery,he-
ma, consequently it could not be variety Erysipe-
| las as DR.. Buel assets.
No communication from A. A. has ever asserted d.
rec.ly or indirectly, that the disease about which 40
much has been said, was variety Of Eryspeias, and
is altogether gratuitoUs to intimate any thing Of tho
kind. In A. AS first communication he gave a cor.
description Of the disease in his second he
serted that il "Medicus had had the common knowl-
edge Of any tyro in medicine his fears would have
been allayed." The communications then Of A. A.
agree with the following from DR.. Buel: al feel
warranted in asserting that the three four
Of disease" "were unlike and totally distinct FROM "
"any" "varety, Of erysipelas." To this assertion
we give our full and entire assent, but 70
fortunate to agree with him in his last assertion
"that two three Of them were nothing more mol
less than common Jeiop."
The folio wing description Of common fslon whit
Iow) 10 from Good, Cd vol. page 1879: "InAammation
seated about the nails and ends Of the fingers; pain
acute aud prcking, shooting up the hand" He
makes four varieties: "lst EGusion Immediately un-
der the skin; ID, EGasiOn among the tendons; 3D..
EfGsiOn pressing on The periostium."
"In ordinary cases pungent deep seated pain is
Ist in the end Of the fingers which 10 soon succeeded
by considerable nceing" Gibson, VOL ID. page 1861
Professor Gibson also describes it AZ " commepcng
10 the extremes Of the fingers. in the form Of small
abscesses." bot says nothing Of modification.
1.-THE first species 10 seated the root side Of
the nail, and when suppurates matter 10 formed i'm
mediately under the cuticIe (scurskin In the Sec
ond species the inflammation occurs under the true
skin. The third species 10 that i" which the in6am-
nation deeply seated In the fourth species the
periOs,ium (skin Of the bo"e) and sometimes he
bone iufSames. Nth spectes mas Oeen noticed AZ
fec.ng the bone exclusively" dorsey, vol. I'd, page
2s2.)
Cooper, Hooper, Psrr, and ssseral other medical
and surgical writers, add nothing essential in their
description Of the common feon to the above.
The amount Of these several descriptions, is, that
common Eelon is an erysipilaOus iGmasatio. Of the
soi. parts Of the fingers, terminating by nsiOR and
subsequently, by ss.ppGrGhiOn.
We will row inquire whether this description Of
commOa selOu is applicable TO the disease is quss-
ton.
We have seen Eve cases; in two OF which the die.
ease began in the fingers; in one RECOMMENDED in the
thumb in one il made it, first appearance At the el-
bow and she thumb and GngeTs were not subsequently
affected; and in the other il located itself upon the
Veg. In every instance the disease commenced in the
skim and was soon followed by death Of The part rs
affected In one case which we saw Unless than three
hours from the attack, the portion Of skin first affect
cd was shrunk and slightly corrugated and perfectly
dead In another case the disease had attacked two
ngsrs and the skin NJ the point Of attack had Ossi
vitality The other three cases We saw IN the sseond