Part 7
But there were also other fevers, as will be described. Many had
their mouths affected with aphthous ulcerations. There were also many
defluxions about the genital parts, and
[p. 132] ulcerations, boils (phymata),
externally and internally, about the groins. Watery ophthalmies of
a chronic character, with pains; fungous excrescences of the eyelids,
externally and internally, called fig, which destroyed the sight of
many persons. There were fungous growths, in many other instances,
on ulcers, especially on those seated on the genital organs. There
were many attacks of carbuncle (anthrax) through the summer, and other
affections, which are called "the putrefaction" (
seps); also large ecthymata, and large tetters (
herpetes) in many instances.