An Account of the Sore Throat Attended With Ulcers

An Account of the Sore Throat Attended With Ulcers - A Disease Which Hath of Late Years Appeared in This City, and in Several Parts of the Nation

A simple Inflammation of the Tonsils, or of other Parts about the Fauces, from its frequently happening without any considerable Hazard attending it, is commonly look'd upon as a troublesome, rather than a dangerous Disease: And every one, how little soever conversant in the Practice of Physic, thinks himself qualified to conduct the Patient thro' it with Safety. If a Person complains of Pain in his Throat upon swallowing, with the Symptoms of a Fever, nothing is thought more expedient, or more frequently order'd, than Bleeding, Purging, and such Medicines as are daily observed to remove Inflammations in general: And in simple Inflammations this Method is warranted to be just, by Reason and Experience. But a Disease hath of late Years appeared in this City, in many of the neighbouring Villages, and according to the best Informamation ivI have been able to procure, in several other Parts of this Nation; which, tho' it may be taken for a common Sore Throat, or a simple Inflammation of the Tonsils, by those who are unacquainted with it, is of a very different Nature from the common one, and requires to be treated in as different a Method: For it has been found by Experience, that those Measures, which seldom fail of answering the Prescriber's Expectation in this Case, frequently produce the most unhappy Consequences in the other, and render a Disease almost certainly fatal, which of itself is not often so, in this Country. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 54911
Author: Fothergill, John
Release Date: Jun 15, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English