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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    relating to its Hiftory, not taken notice of by the other Writers I have feen, and his Method of Cure is different from the reft ; but he re¬ fers us to others for an Account of the Symp- toms, and contents himfelf with reciting and commenting upon Aretceus s Defcripticn of the Ulcer Syriac ay which he takes for granted to have been the fame with the Difeafe at that Time inrefting Naples; tho? very pro¬ bably without fufticient Reafon, Petrus Michael de Heredia, Phyfician to Philip IV. King of Spainy in his Difputatio- nes de Morbis acutis, treats of this Difeafe exprefsly in feveral Chapters under the Title of Angina Maligna. His Hiftory of the Symptoms contains feveral Circumftances which were not taken notice of by any other Writer I have fcen ; fo that though he was probably among the laft of the SpaniJJj Phyficians, who wrote upon this Subject* yet the Diligence of his Predeceffors had not wholly exhaufted it. In the fecond Edition of Herediah Works, which was that 1 made Ufe of (o)y nothing appears whereby to afcertain the Time exactly when he wrote his Account • but as he mentions the Poly ant hea of De la Parray which, ac- E cording (o) Petri Michaelis de Heredia complutenfis—Philippi IV. Hijpa?iiarurn regis Archiatri—Opera medicinalia Lugduni 1673. foL