Volume 1

An account of the sore throat attended with ulcers; a disease which hath of late years appeared in this city and the parts adjacent ... / [John Fothergill].

  • Fothergill, John, 1712-1780
Date:
1748
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the sore throat attended with ulcers; a disease which hath of late years appeared in this city and the parts adjacent ... / [John Fothergill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    > . ’?^i's filcmlfally: To keep the Patient in a iittina: tofture, or his Head raifcd as high as may be, and his upper Parts moderately cool: If thefe Methods don’t immediately take EfFed, Recourfe muft be had to the moft efficacious Remedies, amongft which wc inay rank the Bark and Opium. It is not uncommon for hedic Heats, ■Kight Sweats, Want of Appetite, and De- jedion of Spirits to attend thofe a cohfidera- ble time, who have had the Difeafe in a fevere manner. Affes Milk commonly re¬ lieves them, or a D(^codion'of thzBark, and ^Elix. Vitriol, if the Cafe is more obftiiiate. HAVING thus related, as‘concifely as I 'could, the moft material Circfumftaiices that have occiirr’d to me in refped to the Sym- ^ptoms, Progrefs, and Event of this Diftemper, the ^uvantia^ Ladentia^ and the Accidents chiefly to be regarded in its Cure 5 in fuch a manner as I hope will enable thofe who have not feen or known it, to diftinguilh it from a common Sore Throat and to treat it Avith fome Degree of Propriety and Succefs, I lhall conclude with obferving, 1. That the Sore Throat attended with UI* . cers feems to be accompanied with a ftrong Difpolition to Putrefadion, which affeds the Habit in general, but the Fauces^ and the Parts