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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    mentioned above, it feldom happens but that the febrile Symptoms difappear, the Sloughs come off, and the Ulcers are difpofed to heal in a few Days; unlefs it be where. Misma¬ nagement at firft, Malignity of the Infection, or an unfavourable Conftitution, have one or all contributed to increafe the Difeafe, and to render its Confequences more lading and mifchievous. What Effeds improper Treatment pro¬ duces in this Cafe has already been obferved. With regard to the Matter of Contagion, or the Nature of that Caufe which fo fuddenly v brings on fuch a Train of Symptoms as hath been de[bribed, little can be faid with any Degree of Certainty : Thus much, however, feems to be true in Fad, that in lome Cafes this Difeafe appears to be of fo mild a Na¬ ture, and fo benign, as to require but little Affiftance horn Art: Perfons even recover from it under the Difadvantages of unfkiiful and injurious Management 5 whilft in others, the Progrefs of the Symptoms is fo rapid, and the Tendency to Corruption fo ftrong, that nothing feems able to oppofe it. Juft as it hap¬ pens in the Small-Pox; the benign and di- flind Sort bears ill Treatment without Injury 5 in the malignant flux Kind, the utmoft Art and Experience are too often infufficient to condud the Diftemper to a happy Iffue. Whether this Diverfity in the Sore Throat we
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