An account of the sore throat attended with ulcers; a disease which hath of late years appeared in this city [London] and in several parts of the nation / [John Fothergill].

  • Fothergill, John, 1712-1780
Date:
1751
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the sore throat attended with ulcers; a disease which hath of late years appeared in this city [London] and in several parts of the nation / [John Fothergill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3+ ] the Arms, the Breaft, and lower Extremis ties (a). As the Skin acquires this Colour, the Sick- nefs commonly goes off, the Vomiting and Purging ceafe of themfelves, and rarely con¬ tinue after the firft Day. The Appearance in the Fauces continues to be the fame *, except that the white Places become of a more opake White; and it is now difcoverable, that what at firft might have been taken for the fuperficial Covering of a fuppurated Tumor, is really a Slough, concealing an Ulcer of the fame Dimen- lions. All the Parts of the Fauces above-men- ' tion’d are liable to thefe Ulcerations j but they generally are firft difcernible in the An¬ gles above the Tonjils, or on the Tonjils themfelves; though they are often to be feen in the Arch form’d by the Uvula and one of the Ton fils \ and alfo on the Pha¬ rynx behind, on the In fide of the Cheeks, and the Bafe of the Tongue, which they cover (a) The Rednefs and Eruption have not accompanied this Difeafe fo regularly, during the latter Part of this Winter, as they did in the preceding Seafons : In fome Cafes they did not appear at all 5 in others not till the third or fourth Day ; and, as I have heard, in fome not till the fifth, and even later.