A new inquiry into the causes, symptoms, and cure, of putrid and inflammatory fevers : with an appendix on the hectic fever, and on the ulcerated and malignant sore throat. ... / By William Fordyce.

William Fordyce

Date:: 1777

Credit: A new inquiry into the causes, symptoms, and cure, of putrid and inflammatory fevers : with an appendix on the hectic fever, and on the ulcerated and malignant sore throat. ... / By William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$MALIGNANT SORE-THROAT. 2 XI App.] ders the difeafe lefs dangerous and lefs fatal, being the objeCt of this article, I proceed to divide it into two forts, the Ulcerated and Ma¬ lignant ; becaufe, though the ulceration in the i * throat is very nearly fimilar in both, and even correfponds in fome of the fymptoms, yet it differs exceedingly in others, efpecially in the degree of danger; the lafh requiring, from the very firft feizure, the flrongefl antifeptics, no lefs than the ftridteft attention. Every appearance proves that both forts are putrid and infectious, communicating each the other. At a gentleman's houfe in Iflington the worft fymptoms of the Malignant were to be feen in his children, while only the Ulcerous prevailed among his maid-fervants\ and the fpecies that was attended with two or three days fick- nefs, with the greateft dejedtion of fpirits, both the fcarlet and miliary eruption (the laft fort of eruption feldom fhows itfelf till the fifth or fixth day) produced only the common fort in the maid-fervants who attended. At the fame houfe, in one Lady of nineteen or twenty, the difeafe returned a fecond time, three or four days after fhe had a complete crifis to the firft ; but this is the only inftance in which I have obferved a fecond feizure from the fame infection. One would imagine, that a difeafe fo evidently putrid would fecure againft a Hate of juices truly inflammatory; and yet the meafles were P a caught$