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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    C . 45” J with a Kind of glofly Drynefs upon them. She continued in this Manner, without any remarkable Increafe of Symptoms, till Night, when the Loofenefs returned, and in a very fhort Time exhaufted her Strength to a great Degree : The Rednefs upon the Skin difap- peared, the Extremities grew cold, her Eyes became dim, her Pulfe fcarce perceptible, fhe breathed with Difficulty, and expired in the Morning, on the third Day of the Dif- eafe. % Another young Woman, who frequently vifited, and fometimes shifted, a Relation wrho had th s Difeafe, was attacked with it in the ufual Manner. She was about 17, of a pale and fomewhat bloatea lax Habit, na¬ turally inactive, averfe to Exerciie, and was thought to have indulged fome painful So¬ licitude, to the Prejudice of her Health, and making Way for an obftinate Chlorofis. Under thefe Circumftai ces lhe was feized with the ufual Complaints, but in a violent Manner, lhe Furgng continued till the Day following ; when it vielded for a Time to the P ower of ( pidtes; but conftantly returned when their Effeds weie over. The other Symptoms, fuch as Heat, ktftieflnefs, Anxie¬ ty, and Faintncis, increated with the Purging; the Puife was fmall, quick, and hard; a Dif¬ ficulty of Breathing came on, the fmall Re¬ mains
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