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

  • John Fothergill
Date:
1769
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Credit: An account of the putrid sore throat / [John Fothergill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    part II. Of the Sore Throat attended with Ulcers ; As it has appeared in This City and Parts adjacent.' According to the information i have received from feveral eminent Perlons of the Faculty, it was in the Year 173^, that a Difeafe was firft taken notice of, which was thought to be the Mor- bus ftrangulatonus, already deferibed, and which differed in no cffential circumflance, as far as I can learn, from the Diftemper which is the Subject of this T reatife. The fudden Death of two Children in a Family of Diftindtion, and of fome others near the fame Part of the Town, whofe Complaints had chiefly been of a fore Throat, feem to have occafioned this Sufpicion: But as very few Cafes of the like Nature occurred after thefe, or, if they happened, paffed un- obferved, little Mention was made of it during feveral Years. 7 It
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