Volume 2

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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    mat ion 1 have been able to procure, infever al ether Farts of this Nation j which, tho it may be taken for a common Sore Throat, or d Jimple Infammation of the Tonfils, by thofe who are unacquainted with it, is of a very different Nature from the common one, and requires to be treated in as different a Me- thod: For it has been found by Experience, that thofe Meafures, which feldom fail of anfwering the Frefcribefs Expectation in this Cafe, frequently produce the mo ft un¬ happy Confequences in the other, and render « a TDifeafe almoft certainly fatal, which oft itfelf is not often fo, in this Country. Some In fiances of Miftakes in this refpelt have not long fince fallen under my Offer- vat ion and there is fill a Fojfbility of the like happening, as the fame F) if order conti¬ nues amongft us: It feems therefore necef- jury, that fome Endeavours foould be ufed fo prevent them ; and that fuch a Deferip- tion of the FDifeafe Jhould be made public, as might enable FraEt it toners, who have not feen or known it, to difinguifh it from that to which it bears feme Refemblance$ toge¬ ther with an Account of the Method of treat¬ ing ii, which hath in general been attended with Succefs• There are fever al of the Faculty, who, 1 readily acknowledge, have it more in their Fewer