An inaugural dissertation on the putrid ulcerous sore throat : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for a degree of Doctor in Medicine, on the 8th day of May, 1793 / by Thomas Johnson, of Baltimore ; member of the American Medical Society.
- Johnson, Thomas, 1766-1831
- Date:
- MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the putrid ulcerous sore throat : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for a degree of Doctor in Medicine, on the 8th day of May, 1793 / by Thomas Johnson, of Baltimore ; member of the American Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ] The achme and termination of this diforder is as various as its complexions. It fometimes ends fatally on the i'econd day, at other times it does not come to a crifis till the twelfth; but generally it comes to its fummit about the fifth day. It is ufually perfected in children at an earlier period than in adults. The above I apprehend to be the product of an uncontrolled contagion, and therefore is what fhould be given as a type. When the contagion has been influenced by climate or conftitution, it will have appearances fecundum rerum naturam. Sometimes a fever with an eruption will be the chief fymptoms, when it would be called fcarlatina fe- bris; at other times the eruption would appear firfl:, and then an ulcerous throat of lefs malignancy— this obtained the name of fcarlatina anginofa. But as there can always be found links in the chain, from the cynanche maligna to the fcarlatina febris, the diftinftion of different diforders fhould never be allowed, though it will be abfolutely neqeflary to attend to the variety, as it is in every other dif- order. It mav not be amifs to obferve, that we may al- ways expe£t a worfe affeclion from a regenerate, than from an original contagion. As it is a matter of much importance to diflin- o-uifh this diforder in its full appearances; and as we arc often called upon to pronounce the danger or fafety of our patient, I fhall endeavour to deli- ver the diagnoilic fymptoms, and prognolis of the event. Diagncfis.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133827_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
