Volume 1

An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina anginosa; particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778 / By William Withering.

  • William Withering
Date:
M.DCC.LXXIX [1779]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina anginosa; particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778 / By William Withering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ther place obferves (<2) that notwith- ftanding this difeafe has from the ge¬ neral concurrence of phyficians ob¬ tained a particular name, yet he thinks it to be altogether the fame as the meafles, differing only in the mode of j the eruption; the former being a con¬ tinued inflammation or rednefs equally diffufed over the whole cuticle, the latter exilling in the form of diftindl, oblong or angular blotches. [Ij) So long ago as the beginning of the feventeenth century, Sennertus, phy- [a] Hunc morbum (utut univerfali medicorum con- fen fu titulo peculiari donetiir) prorfus eundem efle cum morbillis cenfeo, et foio efiBorefcenti^e modo ab illis dif- tare, 8cc. Cap. 5. p. 43. Efflorefcentiam banc, interflitlls figura dlverla, ob- longa fcilicet quadrata, vel multanguli prisditis vari- ’ egatam obfervare -eft: namque non una continuata in- ; flammatione feu rubedinc, ut in febre fcarlatina, perfun- ditur cuticula. Quo criterio duntaxat haec efflorefcentia : ab altera qu^e febrenl fcarlatinam comitatur dignofcenda pft. Cap. 3. p* I7‘ fician