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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    by affecting too great a Compofure: This? for the moil part, happens to thofe who fleep but little; for fome are comatous and ftupid, and take little Notice of any Thing that paflfes. In this manner they continue during two, three, or more Days • they commonly grow hot and reftlefs towards the Evening: Which Symptoms and the Delirium increafe as Night cbmes on 5 a Sweat more or lefs profufe breaks put towards Morning 5 and from this Time they are eafier during fome Hours 5 a Faint- nefs only continuing, of which they frer quently complain more than of the Reft of their Sufferings. The Difeafe feems to have no ftated Period which can properly be called its ’Aor Height. Some grow eafier from the firft Day of the Attack; but, in general, the Symptoms of Recovery appear on the third, fourth, or fifth Day, and proceed in the fol¬ lowing Manner: Firft, The Rednefs of the Skin difappears; $he Heat grows lefs; the Pylfe, which was hitherto very quick, becomes flower ; the ex¬ ternal Swellings of the Neck fubfide (c) ; the Sloughs (c) At lead of all the Parts about the Neck, except the Parotids themfelves; which fometimes continue (welled and hard a long Time after the other Symptom? abate, and at length fuppurate.
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