Author: JOHNSTONE (James)
Title: A Treatise on the Malignant Angina: or, Putrid and Ulcerous Sore-Throat. To which are added, some remarks on the Angina Trachealis.
Description: Worcester: Printed and Sold by E. Berrow, 1779. First and only edition, [4], 150pp., disbound. This book, one of the early monographs on the subject, is an augmented edition of his graduation thesis "De Angina Maligna", with considerable additions and some remarks on the angina trachealis. While Johnstone was visiting prisoners suffering from goal fever he caught the disease and died in 1783 at the early age of twenty-nine. Wellcome III, p. 362.

Keywords: MEDICINE PATHOLOGY Malignant Angina Angina Trachealis Goal Fever Diseases