in middle-age writers, an appella- tion given to those afflicted with the Ignis Sacer, or Erythipelas. They were thus called, as seeming to be scorched or burned with the disease. Hence also the abbey of St Genevieve at Paris is called Domus Arden- tium, by reason, as it is said, that great numbers were cured of that distemper at the shrine of this saint, in the reign of Lewis VI.