Works : With some account of his life / By John Coakley Lettsom.
- John Fothergill
- Date:
- 1784
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Works : With some account of his life / By John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[Dr. Fothergill having drawn up a Sketch of the epidemic difeafe which appeared at London, and in various parts of the nation, towards the end of the year 1775, an^ having fent printed copies thereof to feveral phyficians, both in town and the country, in order to obtain a more complete hiftory of the difeafe 5 this Sketch, and alfo the Communications of feveral of his ingenious Correfpondents on the fame fubjedt, are here inferted, being thought well worthy a place in this Colledtion *.] A SKETCH OF THE EPIDE MIC DISEASE, Which appeared in London towards the End of the Year 1775. 1. A BOUT the beginning of the Taft month, it was mentioned to me in many families, that mod of the fervants were fickj that they had colds, coughs, fore-throats, and various other complaints. 1. In the fpace of a week thefe complaints became more general few fervants efcaped them, efpecially the men, who were moft abroad ; many of the other fex, bkewife, and people of higher conditions, were attacked: nor were chil- dren exempted. 3. The difeafe, which had hitherto been either left entirely to itfelf, or had been treated with the ufual domeftic medicines appropriated to colds, now claimed the attention of the Faculty, and, for the fpace of near three weeks, kept them for the moft part univerfally employed. * Medical Obfervations and Inquiries, vol.vi, p. 34,0.. 2 4. Moft](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21517460_0741.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
