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VI. An Account of the Morbus Strangulato 
rius, communicated in a Letter from John 
Starr, M. D, to C. Mortimer, Af. D. 
Secret . R. S . &c. 
SIR, Liskard y Jan. io. 1749.’ 
Read^ May h-'TT is not, I'll aflure you, an Itch for 
Scribbling, but the Concern I feel in 
my own Bread for the Happinefs and Well-being of 
my Fellow-Creatures, which has occafioned my fend- 
ing you the Papers, which this accompanies. We 
have had ravaging among us for fome time, at certain 
Seafons, a Difeafe formidable in its Advances, and 
fatal in its Confequences, I mean an occult Angina> 
called with fome Propriety Morbus Strangulator ius. 
Dr. Pother git's fore Throat with Ulcers, and Dr. 
Cottons Sr. Albans fcarlct Fever, &c. are in my 
Opinion but its Shadows. None praftifing in thofe 
Parts have reafon to boaft their Succefs in attempt- 
ing its Cure. The Way to cure Diforders is firft to 
know them. Where the Deviations of Nature are 
hidden, where we cannot difeern how and in what 
manner the diftrefied Functions fuffer, the Art of 
Healing muft have its Difficulties. The fudden, and 
indeed unexpected Death of fome Patients greatly 
alarmed me. I concluded the Caufe deeper than at 
-firft imagined. The Cafe herewith fent, confirms my 
Conjecture. It is Extraordinary and uncommon. 
Does medical Hiltory afford its like? It is poffible it 
may, but it has not yet fallen within the Cornpafs of 
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