Therefore, as to expel the morbific Matter (3) seems to be the Design of Nature; to promote this Design by the Measures that are approved by Experience in analogous Disorders, is the Duty of the Physician.
It may likewise be remarked, that, though this Disease has now been amongst us several Years, and has consequently survived the different Seasons, and all the Variety of Weather to which we are exposed, yet it seems to shew itself most frequently in Autumn and the Beginning of Winter; at least I have met with many more Cases from September to December, inclusive, than in all the other Months together; having not yet seen any who had it in the Spring, and very few in the Summer.
It may likewise be remark'd, that the Summers of 1747 and 1748 were dry, with some Days in each uncommonly hot, for this Climate; the Mercury in Fahrenheit's Thermometer rising in the Shade, and within-door, one Day to 78, and during several to 75 and 6. The Autumns of the same Years as unusually temperate and warm; the Wind continuing longer in the Southerly Points than has often been known at this Season.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1]. Ab Hispanis Garrotillo appellatur, ut eadem patiantur Angina laborantes, quæ facinorosi homines, cum injecto circa collum sune strangulantur. Epist. R. Moreau ad Th. Barth. Epist. Med. Cent. i. p. 336.
[2]. Affectus suffocatorius, Carbunculus anginosus, Phlegmone anginosa, Angina pestilentialis, Epidemica Gutturis Lues, Morbus Gulæ, Morbus Puerorum, Pestilens ac præfocans pueros abscessus, Tonsillae pestilentes, Ἀγχόνη λοιμώδης, Aphthæ malignæ, Passio angìnosa, Laqueus Gutturis, &c. Vide Cortes. Miscel. Med. p. 696. Severin. Epist. Ren. Moreau ad Th. Barthol. de Laryngotomia.
[3]. Severin. de recondita Abscessuum natur. p. 446.
[4]. Joh. Wieri Observat. lib. i. de Angina pestilenti Epidemica, Oper. p. 910.