An account of the sore throat attended with ulcers; a disease which hath of late years appeared in this city [London] and in several parts of the nation / [John Fothergill].
- John Fothergill
- Date:
- 1751
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 [London] and in several parts of the nation / [John Fothergill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![/.[-] in order to avoid it, efcaped whilft they were kept at a Diftance, but had it on their Return, if the Difeafe was not extinguished ; it was almoft univerfally allow’d to be conta¬ gious (0). Thole who were Seized with it, firft com¬ plained of a Pain or Sorenefs in the Throat, witq a StifFnefs of the Neck, an Uneafinefs on moving it, as if a Cord was twilled about it, a Difficulty in fwrallowing, and frequently in breathing alfo, with a difagreeable fetid Smell and Tafte. On Infpedion, the Uvula, the Ton fils, Pharynx, and the whole Fauces, ap¬ peared cf a remarkably florid red Colour, like that attending an Ery/ipelas: This Co¬ lour was not uniformly intenfe, but fome Parts feemed to be of a deeper Dye than ethers* The Part? above-mention’d were fwell’d more or lefs, tho’ not always fo much as to affect Refpiration, as in a common Angina, If the Attack was violent, they had an extreme Difficulty in breathing, and alfo in fwallowing • with a kind of compreffive Pain and Straitnefs of the Breafl: and Back, a Red- nefs of the whole Face and Neck, great Heat of all the Parts affeded, the Voice much injured. (0) Quod ad contagium attinet, hoc communi om¬ nium confenfu atejue experiment evincitur, Sever in* p? 442.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546266_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
