An account of the putrid sore throat / [John Fothergill].

  • Fothergill, John, 1712-1780
Date:
1769
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Credit: An account of the putrid sore throat / [John Fothergill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ludovicus Mercatus, Phyfician * to Philip II. and III. Kings of Spain, among his Con¬ futations, publifhed in TomeV. of his Works, (a), has one upon this Difeafe (b) : He men¬ tions it as a Calamity which had but newly appeared, and at that Time affedled feveral Provinces and Cities of that Kingdom: He has related only one Cafe 3 but, in comment¬ ing upon it, according to the Method of writing on Difeafes then in Ufe, he takes Notice of feveral Circumftances relativeto.it, and makes fome Obfervations refpedling the Cure, which, tho’ they feem to have been negle&ed by many who fucceeded him, Ex¬ perience hath fince fhewn to be juft; fome of thefe will be pointed out in their proper Places : And, confidering that he wrote very foon after the Diftemper broke out, the Ap¬ probation prefixed to this Part of his Work being dated in 1612, they are a Proof of his Attention and Sagacity. Johannes Andreas Sgambatus, a Phyfician of Naples; publifhed a Treatife upon this Subject (a) D. Ludovici Mercati, Medici a cubiculo Philippi III. Hifpaniarum—Regis, isle. Oper. Tcm. 5. Francof. 1614. (b) De Faucium et Gutturis anginofis et lethalibus Ulceribus. Confultatio xxiy. p. 137.