An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina anginosa : particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778. To which are now prefixed, some remarks on the nature and cure of the ulcerated sore throat / by William Withering.

  • Withering, William, 1741-1799.
Date:
1793
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Credit: An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina anginosa : particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778. To which are now prefixed, some remarks on the nature and cure of the ulcerated sore throat / by William Withering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Morton’s ac count. Symptoms. OF THE SCARLET FEVER supposes, occasioned by some irritating matter in the alimentary canal. But our Scarlatina anginosa seems undoubtedly to have existed in London, in the summer of the year 1689, with symptoms so violent, that Morton, who has trans¬ mitted us the account ot it,* calls it a kind of plague. He does not, in the cases he relates, mention particularly the affection of the throat, but in the eleventh history (page 53) he notices swellings and suppurations of the parotids, produc¬ ing great difficulty in swallowing, and the discharge of acrid and corrosive matter from the nose, ears* and fauces* In another patient a tumor formed in the left armpit* and suppurated ; and a lady had an abscess formed just above the pubis, which became gangrenous. He then mentions in terms of admiration, how much he had observed the tonsils, the uvula, the fauces and the nostrils to have been tumefied; how greatly the lips were sometimes swollen, and covered with sordid scabs and exulcerations. As what is related in this history contains * Exercitatio tertia. Cap. rj.