A dissertation on the inflammatory, gangrenous, and putrid sore throat. Also on the putrid fever, together with their diagnosticks and method of cure / [Francis Penrose].

  • Francis Penrose
Date:
1766
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Credit: A dissertation on the inflammatory, gangrenous, and putrid sore throat. Also on the putrid fever, together with their diagnosticks and method of cure / [Francis Penrose]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    { * o :) Time they have a flabby Appearance) foon after turning of a ciniritious or livid Colour, while the Patient otherwife feems in good Health ; (the Pulfe, Urine, &c. being little different from thofe of a found Perfon) and all the Train of dreadful Symptoms following in much the fame Manner, as they do, when a Mortification lucceeds on a hurt or fradtured Limb* ■ From hence the fame Method, which has been found to be mod ufeful in Mortifications of this Kind, will alfo give the greateft Relief in this mod terrible, and often fatal, Diforder; but as we find only few Patients recover, when once a Mortification is come on, (whether the Mortification proceeds from an internal or ex¬ ternal Caufe ;) fo we muff expeft to lofe many of our Patients, though treated with the greateft Skill and Care. Now, as thefe two Diforders feem fo near allied, viz. the Mortification from a hurt Limb, and the Mortification in the gangrenous fore Throat; fo, I think, the moft rational Method will be to treat them both in the fame Manner. Therefore as, this formidable Diforder, the gangrenous fore Throat, happens but feldom, and fis but of very late Years fince any juft Obfervations
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