DISTEMPERS

II. Diseases belonging to the whole Body, or the various parts of it,* in respect of DISTEMPER, are distinguishable into such as do arise either

From some putrid matter, causing a preternatural heat; being either

• PYREXIA

• Humors; whether ‖ continuing: or intermitting, according to cer∣tain seasons.
  • FEVER, Calenture.
  • AGUE, quotidian, tertian, quartan.
• Habit of the Body, which is usually accompanied by a wasting away of the parts.
  • HECTIC.
  • CONSUMPTION, tabid.

• infection

• Spots in the skin, ‖ according to a lesser: or greater degree of dan∣ger.
  • MALIGNANT FEVER, Spotted fever, Purples.
  • PLAGUE, Pestilence, Pest, pestiferous, pestilential, the Sickness, Murrain.

• Breakings out in the skin.
  • More dangerous; according to degrees greater: or lesser.
    • POX.
    • MEASLES.
  • Less dangerous; accompanied with pain of itching and burning, from bilious matter; ‖ either that which doth usually over∣spread the whole body: or that which is commonly only in some parts, being apt to diffuse it self gradually, being accompani∣ed with redness and scurfiness.
    • ITCH, Mange.
    • TETTER, Ring-worm, Shingles.

• Roughness in the skin.
  • LEPROSIE, Lazer, Leper.
  • SCURF, Morphew, Scald.

• LUES VENEREA, French-pox.

From some humor not in it self corrupted, but by its superfluity distending the inward membranes of the Bones, the Muscles or Nerves: or dis∣colouring by Redness, and heating the outward skin; being a thin light matter that may be easily discussed.

• GOUT, Arthritis.
• ERYSIPELAS, St. Anthony's fire.