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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    this Climate; the Mercury in Fahrenheit's Thermometer riling in the Shade, and within¬ doors, one Day to 7S, and during feveral to 75 and 6. The Autumns of the fame 1. ears were as unufuallv temperate and warm *, the Wind continuing longer in the Southerly Points than has often been known at this Seafon. In this Country, as well as in thofe where the uFighui maligna was fir it taken notice of. Children and young People are more ex pole 4 to it than Adults : A greater Number of Girls have it than Boys ; more Women than Men ; and the Infirm of either Sex are more liable to have the Difeafe, and to luffer from it, than die Healthy and Vigorous: I have feen but few Adults of this Conditution af¬ fected by it, and not one who died of it. When it breaks out in a Family, all the Children are commonly affected with it, if the Healthy are not kept apart from the Sick ; and inch Adults as are frequently with them, and receive their Breath near at hand, fel- dom efcape fome Degree of the lame Difeafe. It generally comes on with iuch a Gid- cinels of the Head, as commonly pre¬ cedes Fainting, and a Chilnefs or Shiver¬ ing like that of an Ague-Fit: This is loon followed by great Heat; and thefe inter- Ciie'igeablv luccecd each other during feme Hours,
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