54 THE MALIGNANT SORE THROAT CHAPVI. 



harks back to the use of depletion and purgatives in some 

 instances. But Fothergill's treatise had a marked effect on 

 medical opinion. His principles of treatment were widely 

 accepted, and effected a great and beneficial change in practice. 

 " How many lives were lost," wrote Withering in 1793, " until 

 Dr. Fothergill and Dr. Wall taught us to withhold the lancet 

 and the purge." * 



1 Op. cit. p. 85. See also Mem. Lettsom, iii. 102. 



