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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![[ *6 ] Spirits were dextroufly applied to the Parts af¬ fected by means of an arm’d Probe ; but they were oftener diluted with Syrup or Honey of Rofes, and in Children pour’d into the Mouth. Tho’ many had recourfe to thefe power¬ ful Remedies, and even to Arfenic itfelf, yet the molt Experienced were juftly ‘afraid, that the Ufe of fuch cauftic and acrimonious Ap- plications was often attended witn pernicious Confequences, both to Children and Adults; and they are therefore, with great Reafon, condemned by Mercatus {b). Neverthelefs fome went fo far as to ad- vife the aCtual Cautery, if the potential ones did not fucceed, and give Directions for the Time and Manner of their Application $ (c) but as this Operation will be liable to all the Objections made to the former, to have men¬ tion’d it will, I imagine, be thought fufficient. Tho’ the Author laft quoted advifes us to fcarify the black or livid Crufts or Sloughs, yet he gives us a Caution not to tear them off, or forcibly feparate them, as the Confe- quences (b) Ego quldem arbitror, plures pueros interfecifie ufum horum medicamentorum, quae cauftica funt, quam ^fFedionem ipfam. Merc. Cartful, p. 139. *— com par cum habuimus in hoc viro, et aliis laboranti- bus, hsec cauftica inflammationi et ulceri fummopere efte nocna : fuppurantia corruption]. Id. p. 40. (c) Heredia, p. 106.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546266_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
