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epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality

epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality

It is called from the eruption resembling the seed of the milium or millet. Fever, accompanied by an eruption of small, red, isolated pimples, rarely confluent, but almost always very numeroud, slightly raised above the skin, and presenting, at the end of 24 hours, a small vesicle filled with a white transparent fluid; which quickly dries up, and separates in the for of scales. Miliary fever is now rare, in consequence of the cooling practice in fevers and other states of the system. It is almost always brought on by external heat, and hence the prevention is obvious. The treatment is simple. It requires merely the antiphlogistic regiment, in ordinary cases.

See Miliaria.