When the Petechiæ appeared, they came out on the fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh Day; seldom after the eleventh or twelfth[3]. They appeared mostly on the Breast, Back, Arms, and Legs, and sometimes, tho’ rarely, on the Face. They had exactly the Appearance described by Dr. _Pringle_, either like small distinct Spots of a reddish Colour, or the Skin looked sometimes as if it had been marbled, or variegated as in the Measles, but of a Colour more dull and lured. As they began to disappear, they inclined to a dun or brown Colour, and looked like so many dirty Spots. I never saw them rise above the Skin; nor did I once see any miliary Eruptions in this Fever; which agreed exactly with what Dr. _Pringle_ had observed in the former War, and in the Beginning of this; however, we ought not to conclude from thence that miliary Eruptions are never observed in Fevers of this kind; for Dr. _Huxham_[4], Dr. _Hasenohrl_[5] and Dr. _Lind_[6], besides many other good Practitioners, mention their having seen them. [3] _Ramazini_, in his Treatise _De Constitutionibus annorum_, 1692, 3, 4, _in Mutinensi civitate_, Sect. 19. mentions the Petechial Fever which had been frequent the three foregoing Years; in which the Petechiæ appeared commonly on the fourth or seventh Days, and almost all those died in whom they appeared on the first Day. These Spots came out first on the Neck, the Back and Breast; and it was observed that none escaped unless these Spots extended themselves as far as the Nails of the Toes, vanishing by Degrees on the upper Parts. He tells us likewise, that this Fever was attended with an Inflammation of the Throat, which, about the Height of this Disorder, terminated in a white ulcerous Crust. This sore Throat should seem to be the same which we now call _the malignant ulcerous sore Throat_, which I never once saw while I was with the Troops in _Germany_. [4] Dr. _Huxham_, in his _Essay on Fevers_, ch. viii. p. 97, tells us, that sometimes, about the eleventh or twelfth Day, on the coming on of profuse Sweats, the Petechiæ disappear, and vast Quantities of small white miliary pustules break out. [5] Dr. _Hasenohrl_, in his Treatise _De Febre Petechiali_, cap. i. p. 12. relates a very particular Case, where the Petechiæ appeared on the fourth, and the white miliary Eruptions on the seventeenth Day of the Fever. [6] Dr. _Lind_, in his _second Paper on Fevers_, p. 105. mentions Spots which rise above the Surface of the Skin, and are of the miliary kind, as common in contagious Fevers, as he observed among the _French_ Prisoners in _Winchester_ Castle, in the Beginning of the Year 1761.