Litchfield Enquirer

Mr. Adams—The disease that has recently appeared among us has excited considerable speculation and some anxious inquiry. The following brief description is given to satisfy public curiosity. The ancients recognized it under the name of Ignis Sacer. It has four varieties. Celsus includes the variety that has appeared with us as in his second species, and thus describes it: 'The color dusky-red; superficial; cuticle separated from the cutis by a bloody serum; the cutis when denuded exhibiting dark brown spots, disposed to blister and slough; occurring chiefly in the extremities.' It occurs most frequently in debilitated and relaxed constitutions. The gangrene in some cases is ushered in with very little previous affection.