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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    induced us to adopt the treatment which long experience had approved in the Angina gangraenosa, with such modifi- cations as the more urgent inflammatory symptoms seemed to require, yet the want of success necessarily determined us to seek for other remedies, and the beneficial consequences resulting from a very different mode of practice, first made me suspect that the two diseases were really distinct. But in attempting to discriminate them, difficulties occurred which could not fairly be done away; and I was forced to confess that, distinct as they appeared to be in the two extremes, in other points they ran insensibly into each other, so that I found it impossible to draw an exact line between them. Still, how- ever, I was disposed to consider them as distinct diseases, from a conviction that they who had once gone through the Scarlatina anginosa could never be infected by it again; whilst no such exemption operated in favour of such as had suffered from the ulcerated Sore Throat; and an instance vv'as brought A 2