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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![[ 5* ] ing to be light-headed. She had made no Complaint of her Throat, nor was this Part thought to be affedted, till, upon Examina¬ tion, I found it fo ; being led to fufped it by the Colour of her Hands, and the De¬ lirium. She got well through the Difeafe, tho’ its Progrefs, at firft, appear’d to be very fwifc. A common fore Throat, if the Patient re¬ covers, either goes off by Refolution, or the Parts affedted fuppurate, or, if glandular, be¬ come hard and fcirrhous. In that attended with Ulcers, none of thefe Circumftances happen; for it terminates in a fuperficial Ulceration offome of the Parts about the Fauces, if the Difeafe is very mild, with little Appearance of any Sloughs, and with large and deep ones, of a white, cineritious, li¬ vid, or black Colour, if it is more violent. It will not perhaps be difficult, from fuch a comparative View, to diftinguifh this Dif¬ eafe from a common fore Throat, or an inflarm- matory Affedion of thofe Parts in moft In- fiances : But there is another no Jefs certain Criterion, tho' too often a fatal one, which is, fheconftant Increafe of Symptoms upon Bleed¬ ing, Purging, and the liberal Ufe of cooling an- tiphlogiffic Medicines: A Method, which, as It leldom fails to remove a genuine Inflamma¬ tion, if it is early enough and affiduoufly pur- faed; fo it is too often injurious in the prefent](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546266_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
