A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time
CHAPTER VII.
SCARLATINA AND DIPHTHERIA.
Nosological difficulties in the earlier history 678
The Throat-distemper of New England, 1735-36 685
Angina maligna in England from 1739 691
An epidemic of Throat-disease in Ireland, 1743 693
Malignant Sore-throat in Cornwall, 1748 694
Fothergill’s Sore-throat with Ulcers, 1746-48 696
“Scarlet Fever” at St Albans, 1748 698
Epidemics of Sore-throat with Scarlet rash in the period between Fothergill and Withering 699
Scarlatina anginosa in its modern form, 1777-78 708
History of Scarlatina after the Epidemic of 1778 713
Scarlatina (1788) and Diphtheria (1793-94) described by the same observer 715
Scarlatinal Epidemics, 1796-1805 719
Scarlatina since the beginning of Registration, 1837 726
Reappearance of Diphtheria in 1856-59 736
Conditions favouring Diphtheria 744