A complete cure ultimately followed.
Purdon describes an Irish married woman of forty, the subject of rheumatic fever, who occasionally had a blue serous discharge or perspiration that literally flowed from her legs and body, and accompanied by a miliary eruption.

It was on the posterior portions, and twelve hours previous was usually preceded by a moldy smell and a prickly sensation.

On the abdomen and the back of the neck there was a yellowish secretion.

In place of catamenia there was a discharge reddish-green in color.

The patient denied having taken any coloring matter or chemicals to influence the color of her perspiration, and no remedy relieved her cardiac or rheumatic symptoms.
The first English case of chromidrosis, or colored sweat, was published by Yonge of Plymouth in 1709.