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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![[ >4 ] occafioned by any Cruft or Matter fuperin- duced upon the Parts, but proceeded from a gangrenous Colliquation of them, the Sub- ftance itfelf being mortified. The Voice was hoarfe and obfcure ; not as in a common Cold, but as it is in thofe Peo¬ ple who have venereal Ulcers in the Throat: So that, from this Atfe&ion of the Voice alone, fame were able to guefs at the Difeafe (t). The Neck and Throat foon after began to fwell externally; the Tumour was of a foft cedematons kind, and increafed in Magni¬ tude as the Difeafe advanced. All the Sym¬ ptoms were aggravated during the Night, If the Patients had any Interval of Quiet, it was commonly in the Day-time (&), About the fourth Day this Tumour was generally grown very large, and the white Places in the Fauces began to turn black; a putrid corro- five Sanies was difeharged by the Mouth and Noftrils (the Breath grew extremely offen- iive; (t) Severin. p. 442. (u) Sgambat, (w) Quibus etiam accedit fublimis refpiratio et altavac fpirituum revulfio, cum maxima pinnarum nafi diften- tione,—-faniei per os et nares excretio, variis ulcerum coloribus et intentififlimo faetore naufeam plerumque mo- vente cum fordida excretione. In aliquibus vero extra, prope cervicem, et infra mentum glandulap apparent, pef- tiferi morbi naturam redolentes, et univerfa cervix, et collum intumefeunt, et fauces cum rubore faturatp, inftar kqueo fuffocatorum. Merc* Confult. p. 136,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546266_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
