A dissertation on the malignant, ulcerous sore-throat

In retrospect, scholars have given credit to John Huxham's A dissertation on the malignant, ulcerous sore-throat (1757), as an early, true description of diphtheria, though the disease had not been identified and named at that time.

Huxham, John, 1692-1768

London : Printed for J. Hinton, at the King's-Arms in Newgate-Street

1757

Diphtheria
Ludwig's Angina
Pharyngitis

Given by Dr. Dr. Dennis G. Pappas, Sr.; belongs to the Dennis G. Pappas, Sr. Otolaryngology Collection, Reynolds-Finley Historical Library, UAB Libraries, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

[6], 70 p. ; 21 cm (8vo)

English