. An essay on fevers : to which is now added, a dissertation on the malignant, ulcerous sore-throat. DISSERTATION ON THE Malignant Ulcerous I N C E the Publication of myEJfay on Fevers^ I have had fre-quent Opportunities of makingObfervations on a Difeafe of theputrid, malignant Kind, whichabundantly confirm my Notions of the Caufeand Cure of malignant peftilential mean what is called the Angina maligna^ orUlcerous Sore-nroaty which hath appeared upand down this Kingdom for feveral Years, infome Places very common and exceedingly fa-tal, efpecially to Children. The firft
. An essay on fevers : to which is now added, a dissertation on the malignant, ulcerous sore-throat. DISSERTATION ON THE Malignant Ulcerous I N C E the Publication of myEJfay on Fevers^ I have had fre-quent Opportunities of makingObfervations on a Difeafe of theputrid, malignant Kind, whichabundantly confirm my Notions of the Caufeand Cure of malignant peftilential mean what is called the Angina maligna^ orUlcerous Sore-nroaty which hath appeared upand down this Kingdom for feveral Years, infome Places very common and exceedingly fa-tal, efpecially to Children. The firft accurate Account we had of thisDiftemper in England^ was from the very in-genious Dr. Fothergill^ in 1748.—But feveral of A Differtation on the^ &:c. ^67 of the Spanijh and Italian Phyficians have de-fcribed exacStly fuch a Kind of Difeafe, as rag-ing with great Violence and Mortality inSpain, and feveral Parts of Italy, in the Begin- ing of the laft Century. Perhaps the Syrian and Egyptian Ulcers mentioned by Aretaus Cap-padox, and tht pejlilent ulcerated Honftls, we readof in j^tius Amidenus, were of this Nature ;—and truly fome of the
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