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eath, the perspiration and the skin are likewise noticeable. The localities affected lose their natural hair and are re-covered with very fine hairs, invisible except when held between the eye and the sun. The hair of the eyebrows and the eyelashes are lost--one of the worst of symptoms. There are present also hoarseness and an obstruction of the nostrils, without any visible cause. When the patient takes a bath the water runs off the affected localities as if they had been greased--another sign of evil omen. The angles of the eyes are rounded and shining. The skin, even when unaffected by cold, or other similar cause, is raised into very minute pimples, like the skin of a plucked goose. The blood in venesection has an oily appearance, and displays small particles like sand. Small tumors accompany the depilation of the eyebrows. Lepers are unusually and unduly devoted to sexual pleasures, and suffer unusual depression after sexual indulgence. The skin is tormented with a constant itching, and is alternately unduly hot or cold. Small grains are found under the tongue, as in leprous hogs. Gilbert divides leprosy into four varieties, _elephantia_, _leonina_, _tyria_ and _allopicia_, the pathology, symptoms and treatment of each of which are presented with wearisome minuteness and completeness. A long chapter, entitled "_De infectione post coitum leprosi_," discusses the transmission of the disease by means of sexual intercourse, and suggests the possible confusion of lepra and syphilis. The usual catalogue of specific remedies terminates the discussion. An interesting chapter on small-pox[9] and measles, "_De variolis et morbillis_," gives us the prevailing ideas relative to these diseases in England during the thirteenth century. Premising his remarks with a classification of diseases as follows: Diseases universal and infectious--like _morphoea_, _serpigo_, _lepra_, _variolae et morbilli_. Diseases universal but not infectious. Diseases infectious but not universal--like _noli me tangere_. Diseases neither infectious nor universal. Gilbert classifies _variolae et morbilli_ among the universal and infectious diseases, and in the species _apostemata_. To this latter species belong also _ignis Persicus_, _carbunculus_ and _antrax_. [Footnote 9: It is at least interesting to know that small-pox is said to have made its first appearance in England in 1241.] _Variolae et morbilli_ arise from moist matter
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