MEDICAL 



P A P E R S. 



388 



antidotes are, can never be determined by reafoning a 

 priorh but muft be found out by experiments alone. Con- 

 iidering the frequency of the accidents which arife from 

 poifons, and the little relief we are able to afford in them, 

 I cannot help thinking an enquiry into this fubjed; a mat- 

 ter of great importance, and well worthy of the attention 

 of the faculty of phyfic. 



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dn E N QJJ I R Y into the nature^ caiife and cure of tl 

 ANGINA SUFEOCATIVA, or Sore Throat Diftempcr 

 as it IS commonly called by the inhabitants of the city and 



colony of New'-Tork^ <6^r. By Samuel Bard, M- D. 

 and Prof ejfor of the P rail ice of Phyftc in King's Colleger 

 Neiv-Tork'y communicated /o John Morgan, M. D^ 

 F. R. S. Profeffor of the Theory and PraSiice of Phyfic 

 in the College of Philadelphia* 



' /i^ *rzy^2//y/// and accurate hiflory of difeafes^ their va~ 

 -^^ rious fymptoms and method of cure -^ is the mof effec-- 

 *' tiial "way of promoting the art of healing ; phyficians floould 

 " defcrihe ivith the utmof care^ the di/eafes they ivould 

 " treat of and the good and bad effeSis of any method or 

 '^ medicines they have ufed in them. But in a more par ti^ 

 *' cular manner is this neceffary-i 'when any new and nn^ 



*^ common difemper occurs^ of nvhich the peculiar pat ho- 

 *' irnomonic and diagnofic fgns fJjould he carefully laid 



^^ doivn-, and a part tcidar account given of vuhat evacu^- 

 *' ations-i regimen and medicines %vere if ef id or hurtful in ity' 



HuxiiAM on Fevers, />. 267. 



ROM a' convit^ion of the truth and importance of 

 thefe obfervations, and in obedience to the precept 

 of fo great a man as Huxham^ IJiiave determined to attempt 

 the hiftory of a difeafc,. which has lately appeared among; 

 the children of this city, and which, both as an uncommon: 

 and highly dangerous diflcmper, well deferves an attentive ~ 

 cbnfideration. In delivering it therefore, I fliall firft care- 



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