An account of the sore throat attended with ulcers; a disease which hath of late years appeared in this city [London] and in several parts of the nation / By John Fothergill, M.D.
- John Fothergill
- Date:
- 1748
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the sore throat attended with ulcers; a disease which hath of late years appeared in this city [London] and in several parts of the nation / By John Fothergill, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[68] Degree of Certainty: Thus much, however, fee ms to be true in Fad, that in fome Cafes this Difeafe appears to be of fo mild a Na¬ ture, and fo benign, as to require but little Afliftanee from Ait: Perfons even recover from it under the Difadvantages of unskilful and injurious Management; whilft in others, the Progrefs of the Symptoms is fo rapid, and the Tendency to Corruption foftrong, that nothing feems able to oppofe it. Juft as it hap¬ pens in the Small-Pox; the benign and di- ftmd Sort bears ill Treatment without Injury; in the malignant flux Kind, the utmoft Art and Experience are too ofren infuflicient to con dud the Diftemper to a happy Iffuc. Whether this Diverfity in the Sore Throat 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 diftind Species of it $ may perhaps hereafter be more certainly de¬ termined. With refped to Conftitution, it may be further obferved, that in foft, lax, leuco- phlegmatic Habits, and languid inadive Dif- pofitions, every thing elfe being equal, the Difeafe feems to proceed more (lowly, to go off more irregularly, and to leave behind it more lading Effeds. In fome Perfons of the Temperament deferibed, tho’ the Fever has grown](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30547301_0080.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
