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.

  • Withering, William, 1741-1799.
Date:
1793
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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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Early in life I bad opportunities of seeing much of the ulcerated Sore Throat, and under the sanction of practitioners, to whom I looked up with deference and respect, I saw it universally treated with port wine, bark, acidulated gargles and antiseptic steams. This mode of practice was not unsuccessful; sooner or later it was very universally adopted, and as the disease never again became so prevalent as I had seen it in my younger days, I felt no inducement to alter the mode of treatment. In the first edition of this pamphlet it was remarked, that the Scarlet Fever of 1778 was preceded by some cases of *' the ulcerated Sore Throat. —Upoit further examination my notes refer to two- families in Birmingham affected by it in the month of February, to two more iri April, and to several in and about Hales- Owen in the winter and spring. These did well under the established treatment; but in the month of May, when the Scarlet Fever first became a very prevalen epidemic at this place, although the grea resemblance of its leading characteristic