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Credit: Vincent's angina / by J.D. Rolleston. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![umler-estimate its real frequency, as in 190o only 3, in 1906, 4, and in 1907, 6 of the ten hospitals admitting acute cases of diphtheria returned the diagnosis of Vincent’s angina in their statistics. Its .slightly greater frequency at the Grove Hospital supports this view. During the quinquennium, 1905-1909, 3266 cases of diphtheria were admitted to this hospital, and another 610 were certified as diphtheria, but were found after admission to have otlier diseases, among which were 30 of the 32 cases which form tlie subject of this paper. The frequency of Vincent’s angina at the Grove Hospital during a period of five years was therefore 0’9 ])er cent, in all cases of sore throat and 4'9 per cent, in non-diphtheritic angina. Vincent himself found that it occurred in 2’2 per cent, of all cases of angina. It should be noted, however, that his patients, instead of being of all ages and se.ves, like those admitted to the Asylums Board hospitals, were exclusively soldiers between the age.s of 20 and 25 years. L. Martin, at the Hopital Pasteur, met with it only in 2 out of 122 cases of non-diphtheritic angina. Marfan found it in 1 per cent, of all cases of angina admitted to the diphtheria block at the Hopital des Eufants Malades. A. Meyer saw 30 cases in five years in Heymann’s throat and ear deparnient at Berlin among 15,000 ca.ses of this speciality. Age and —The ages and sexes of the 32 patients are shown in the following table : Years. 0-2 2- 3 3- 4 4- 5 5- 6 6- 7 7- 8 8- 9 9- 10 10-11 11-12 12-13 14-15 16-17 Tablk I. Males. 0 2 3 4 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 Females. 0 1 1 2 2 4 2 3 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 15 17](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22433491_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
