An account of the putrid sore throat / [John Fothergill].

John Fothergill

Date:: 1769

Credit: An account of the putrid sore throat / [John Fothergill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$mil in Spain about the Year 1610, to have fpread from thence to Maltay Sicily, Otranto, Apulia, Calabriay and the Campagnia, in the Space of a few Years \ and to have broke out at Naples in 1618, where it continued upwards of 20 Years ravaging the different Parts of that Kingdom (c.) It is not certainly known how much longer it remained in thele Countries, or to what others it was communicated at that Time, its Declenfion being as obfcure as the Caufes it fprung from. That it wholly difappeared in thele Parts, foon after the Time above-men¬ tioned, fee ms probable, from the Silence of ihofe Fhyficians, who have published their Obfervations made in the Places, which had; fo feverely felt the Effe&s of this Diftemper. Several Writers, as Wierus (d), For re ft us (e), Ramazzini (f)y and others, take notice of epidemic Affections of the Throat, in fome RefpeCts refembling the Difeafe here defcribed^ but a little Attention to the Symptoms of each, will, s 4 I (c) Severin. de recondita AbrcdTuum natur, p. 446. (d) Job. Wieri Obfervat. lib. vi. de Angina peftilentj,, Fpidemica, Qper. p. 910. (e) Pet. Forrcji. Obfervat. lib. vi. de Febribus publicc graOantibus, p. m. 150. (f) Bern. Ra?nazzim Conftitutiones Epidem* fk I95> &$

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