A treatise on the malignant angina, or putrid and ulcerous sore throat. To which are added some remarks on the angina trachealis / [James Johnstone].

  • James Johnstone
Date:
1779
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Credit: A treatise on the malignant angina, or putrid and ulcerous sore throat. To which are added some remarks on the angina trachealis / [James Johnstone]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sydenham has deferibed a fcarlet fever, which, he fays, appeared in the end of almoft every fummer, and he treated it with his ufual fagacity and fuccefs.—I wifli his method of practice, not his theory, to be attended to.—He confined the patient to his room, denied animal food, rendered his diet mildly antifeptic, and cautioufiy refrained from bleeding and purging, though he fpeaks of it as inflammatory.—. When the head was particularly attacked, he applied a blifter to the back. The difeafe which now prevails is the ulcerous malignant fore-throat combined with the fcarlet fever of Sydenham, and as he fpeaks of the Bark as the befl: remedy for aphtha or putrid ulcers of the mouth and throat j it is highly probable that he would have treated the prefent reigning dif¬ eafe in the manner here recommended._ He, who did not ufe bleeding, purges, or even opening clyfters in the Ample fcarlet fever, would certainly have been more averfe to them in the fame fever ac¬ companied with putrid ulcers in the throat tending to mortification. W® , ^
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