Observations on Erysipelas Infantile

ble a disease in his hands ; viz. " Small doses of sulphate of magnesia with antimonial wine, and saline diaphoretics, usually carried off the disease, after the previous exhibition of one or two active purgatives with submuriate of mercury and scammony. A slight opiate at night was also serviceable." Indeed, I can candidly assert, that the disease abovementioned has caused me no small degree of uneasiness, particularly when, after consulting several eminent practitioners in London, and searching for the observations of those who had written upon the subject, I could not over* come the ravages of this infanticide. I conceive, that the cases of Erysipelas which came under Dr. Davis's notice must have been of a much milder form, than those which came under mine.* The disease to which I allude