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                                   AN
                                ACCOUNT
                                 OF THE
                              SORE THROAT

                         Attended with ULCERS;

                   A DISEASE which hath of late Years
                     appeared in THIS CITY, and the
                            PARTS ADJACENT.

                      By JOHN FOTHERGILL, _M. D._

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                               _LONDON_:

                   Printed for C. DAVIS, over-against
                      _Gray's-Inn Gate, Holborn_.

                              MDCCXLVIII.




                                PREFACE.


_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 I 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