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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![r13 ] lu*> injured, an unquenchable Third, and the Patient feemingly in Danger of being choaked (?)• ^ fotne, the Swelling and Ulcers of the Fauces were apparent upon looking into the Mouth; in others, nothing could be feen, but a mod: offenfive putrid Smell was perceivable. A Fever came on with the other Symptoms, and was frequently ac¬ companied with fmall Pimples andEruptions like Flea-bites. In very bad Cafes, this Fe¬ ver, which Mercatus calls a moil malignant one (r), did not always difcover its Violence or Malignity at firft; but it was not the lefs formidable on this Account (■*). On the lame Day, or the Day following, fuch Parts of the Fauces as at fird feem'd to / be of a deeper Colour than the red, turn’d white, adi-colouPd, or black; this was not occafioned (q) -difficultas refpirandi, et non raro deglu- titiendi, cum pe&oris et dorfi doiore ac veluti compref- fione fuftocante, fimul cum peflilenti odore, et vehement harum omnium partium ardore, et rubore totius oris et colli, cum vocis et loquelae vitio, ac linguae extradtione, et fiti incompefcibili. Mercat. Confult. p. nfi. (r) Maxime ob malignilTimam febrem, quam plerum- que fibi adjun&am habet, &c. Confult. p. 136. (s) —nec multum fidere oportet, fi febris mox non ap- paruit aut fuccrefcat, nam faepe citius fufFocat alFe&io, quam caufa fuccendaturj ac non raro malignitas humoris corrumpit fpiritus et mortem accelerat, fine eo quod febris fuccendatur, Mercat. Confult. p. 137. t](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546266_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
