. Annals of medical history. llected by now in the files of the Library of theCollege of Physicians of Philadelphia is anarticle termed, Observations on the AnginaMaligna; or The Putrid and Ulcerous SoreThroat, with a Method of Treating it,By a lover of Pennsylvania, 1769 (Sent toAmerican Magazine, June 16, 1769). Asidefrom the subject matter, which identifiesthe author, a contemporaneously writtentable of contents names John Kearsley,Junior, as its writer. The monograph is written in the gran-diloquent style of that period. Kearsleybelieved the prevalence of angina malignaamong childre
. Annals of medical history. llected by now in the files of the Library of theCollege of Physicians of Philadelphia is anarticle termed, Observations on the AnginaMaligna; or The Putrid and Ulcerous SoreThroat, with a Method of Treating it,By a lover of Pennsylvania, 1769 (Sent toAmerican Magazine, June 16, 1769). Asidefrom the subject matter, which identifiesthe author, a contemporaneously writtentable of contents names John Kearsley,Junior, as its writer. The monograph is written in the gran-diloquent style of that period. Kearsleybelieved the prevalence of angina malignaamong children to result from the lack ofsolids and the spongy habits of theiryoung bodies which predisposed to a recep-tion of the floating miasmata of a putridatmosphere. Its epidemic sweep throughthe colonies seemed, by its dire effects,to be more like the drawn sword of ven-geance to stop the growth of the colonies,than the natural progress of a disease. Inthe New England governments, as theirannals no doubt will show, the stroke was. IIk- 1 felt with great severity; villages werealmost depopulated, and parents were leftto bewail the loss of their tender offspring,till Heaxen at last, the only unerringPhysician, was pleased to check its banefulinduence. Noah Webster has recorded The John Keahslevs 399 an epidemic oi putrid sure throat in Eng-land at about this time and in his opiniona concomitant activity of Etna wassignificant. The cHnical picture is somewhat con-fused by the vohibihty of the author; buthis descriptions of the tonsillar and faucialexudate, the nasal discharge, the suOoca-tive symptoms and the clinical coursefollow closely the present conception ofdiphtheria. The following classical clinicaldescription is worthy of preservation. Thebreath threw forth a cavernous stench, andthe eyes and nose dischargd a dissolvdichorous matter, which even corroded thetender parts on which it trickled. Underthese circumstances, the patient discoveredgreat restlessness and anxiety with gid
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