morbilli

Definitions

Examples

• Diseases universal and infectious—like morphoea, serpigo, lepra, variolae et morbilli.

• Variolae et morbilli arise from moist matter confined in the body and turbid, like turbid blood.

• Morbilli is a mild disease, but requires protection from cold, which confines and coagulates the peccant matter.

• Gilbert classifies variolae et morbilli among the universal and infectious diseases, and in the species apostemata.

• But the passage quoted is of interest as using the old word mesles to mean one of the two forms of morbilli or punctilli.