An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina anginosa : particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778. To which are now prefixed, some remarks on the nature and cure of the ulcerated sore throat / by William Withering.

  • Withering, William, 1741-1799.
Date:
1793
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Credit: An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina anginosa : particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778. To which are now prefixed, some remarks on the nature and cure of the ulcerated sore throat / by William Withering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •4 Early in life I had opportunities of seeing much of the ulcerated Sore Throat, and under the sanction oi 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 wras 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 ho inducement to alter the mode of treatment. In the first edition of this pamphlet it was remarked, that the Scarlet Fever of 1778 44 was preceded by some cases of 44 the ulcerated Sore Throat,'9 — Upon further examination my notes refer to two families in Birmingham affected by it in the month of February, to two more in 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 prevalent epidemic at this place, although the great resemblance of its leading characteristics