A Curious Form of Eruptive Fever in Calcutta

neck and face, of a sort of papula), rather resembling urticaria, and about the size of an 8 anna piece, red apparently from scratching them : they are very itchy ; headache relieved. 5th.?One or two additional wheals have broke out, but most of the others are now disappearing; complains of a bitter taste in the mouth. 6th.?The eruption going off; much distresssd with cough in the night. 7th.?No cough since taking the draught; complains of itching, but there is no fresh crop of eruptions." The subsequent record of the case notes that the cough continued to be a little troublesome, and that the patient complained of trifling pains in the back, chest, knees and calves of the legs, off and on. He was discharged from hospital on the 31st May, 1823. This case was called " Urticaria Febrilis," and is initialed " J. A.," which Mr. L'Estrange, the senior steward of the hospital, who is a contemporary of Twining and Raleigh, informs me stands for John Anderson, formerly an Assistant Surgeon of the General Hospital, who retired from the medical service,