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Credit: An account of the putrid sore throat / [John Fothergill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the putrid sore throat / [John Fothergill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![[ «9 ] we are fpeaking of, is owing to a Difference of Conftitutions, or of Seafons, to the dif¬ ferent Quality or Quantity of the Contagion, or the Manner of receiving it; or whether there are in Reality diftindt Species of it; may perhaps hereafter be more certainly de¬ termined. With refpedt to Conftitution, it may be further obferved, that, in foft, lax, leuco- phlegmatic Habits, and languid inactive Dif- pofitions, every Thing elfe being equal, the Difeafe feems to proceed more flowly, to go off more irregularly, and to leave behind it more lafting Effedts. In fome Perfons of the Temperament defcribed, though the Fever has grown lefs, and all the Symptoms abated in four or five Days, yet the Sloughs in the Throat have continued almoft a Week after; whilft in the oppofite Conftitution, though the Difeafe has been much more acute, yet the Symptoms have no fooner abated, than the Sloughs have caft off, and the Ulcers healed of their own Accord. r A copious Haemorrhage from the Nofe, Mouth, or Ears, the laft efpecially, coming on after the Difeafe has continued three or four Days, or longer, is a dangerous Phe¬ nomenon : For at this Time of the Diftemper, it moft probably proceeds from the Branch of an Artery deftroyed by the Mortification, and laid open by the Separation <?f the Slough,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30788626_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
