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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    i I I I I and sore throat. 31 t i Schultzlus defcribes the fcarlet fever and fore throat under the name of pur¬ pura epidemia maligna as it appeared in in Poland. Poland in the fpring of the year 1664.'^ He remarks, ‘‘That the winter was * “ mild and rainy, [a] that the difeafe “.appeared early in the fpring and con- “ tinned to rage through the wholeSeafon. * Mifcellanea naturae curioforum. Annus 6. 7. Obf. 145. ; p. 206. (fl) Cum anno 1664 hyems mollis et pluviofa eflet, graffabatur apud nos vere primo infequente purpura epidemia maligna, quae per totam aeftatem et autumnum ufque in hyemem faeviebat, plurimofque infantes utriuf- ' quefexus, et duodecim annum attingentes (nam ultra banc aetatem vix afcendebat) perimebat. Plerique fecunda die morbi, nonnulli etiam prima moriebantur; ilii folum- modo evadebant, qui nulla faucium inflammatione vel tumore cedematofo (variabant enim ifla pro diverlitate na- turarum'i infellabantur. Turn omnibus ab ifto morbo liberatis, poll copiofum fudorem (nonnullis etiam diar¬ rhoea, fed tantum unius vel alterius diei critica profuit) fquamae decidebant, rubore cutis evanefcente. Tandem, praefertim natu majoribus, tumor totius corporis, inllar leucophlegmatiae, et infimi ventris fequebatur, qui per aliquot feptimanas miferis molellus erat, fudoreque eti¬ am folvebatur, interduin etiam urina largius profluente. —Mifcell. Nat. cur. ann. 6. 7. p. 206. I c fummer