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Credit: An account of the putrid sore throat / [John Fothergill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the putrid sore throat / [John Fothergill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![[ H ] j But as they found from Experience, that no regular Crifis or Concodtion of the Hu- mours was to be waited for ; that no Eva¬ cuations, except by way of Revulfion, after the Accefs, were of Ufe (/), they began to confider the Difeafe as local, as a particular (u) morbid Affection of the Fauces, and ap¬ plied themfelves chiefly to Topics, without laying'much Strefs on Internals. In this Part of their Directions they have therefore been more explicit and fome of them, in order to point out their Applica¬ tions with more Propriety, have divided the Courfe of this Difeafe into four different Pe¬ riods (x). The firft they called the State of Inflam¬ mation. In this, mild Repellents were thought necefiary; fuch as Vinegar in Barley-Water* Juice of the Pomegranate, Syrup of Rofes,Mul¬ berries, Purflain, ora Decodtion of Barley, red Rofes, Liquorice, and Plantain; to two Pounds of which were added Acet. Rofar. f j fs. Syr* Diamort ejus celeberrimi medicamenti, quod medici Hifpani Con- trayerva nuncupant, maxime fi mucofa et vifcida pituita abundaverit. Mercat. Confute, p. 138. (f) —Experimento monftratur, quamcunque evacua- tionem peralvum, aut fudorem inutilem efle etnocivam, quia cum non profit, necefiario debilitat. Hered. p, 100. (u) Cortef. Adi feel, p, 703. (*) Sgambat. de Affediu Faucium peftilente.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30788626_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
