OF THE SORE THROAT Attended with ULCERS; As it hath appeared in THIS CITY, and PARTS adjacent. About twelve Years ago, two Children, in a Family of Distinction, and some others in the same Part of the Town, being carried off suddenly, and their principal Complaints having been of a Soreness in their Throats, it occasion'd a Suspicion, that the _Morbus strangulatorius_ was broke out amongst us: But as very few Cases occurred after these, or pass'd unobserv'd, the Disease and the Remembrance of it seemed to vanish together. It began however to shew itself again about 4 or 5 Years ago, but not very frequently: And tho' some of the Faculty met with it now-and-then, it remained unknown to Practitioners in general, till within these two or three Years: Since which Time its Appearance has been more frequent, both in Town, and the Villages adjacent. In the Winter of 1746, so many Children died, and so suddenly, at _Bromley_ near _Bow_ in _Middlesex_, of a Disease that seem'd to yield to no Remedies or Applications, that the Inhabitants began to be alarmed with Apprehensions that the Plague was broke out amongst them; some losing all, and others the greater Part of their Children, after a few Days Indisposition. Some others of the neighbouring Places were affected at the same time, tho' in a less Degree, with the same Disease; which, from all the Accounts I have met with, from those who attended the Sick, was the Disease here treated of.——It still continues in this City, and sometimes shews itself in the Villages about it, though at present with so mild an Aspect, as seldom to prove fatal; unless the Subject is very unfavourable, or the Disease hath been neglected, or improperly treated at the Beginning; which Circumstances, tho' of Moment in all Cases, yet are very much so in this, as a wrong Step at the first, may put it out of the Power of Art to afford Relief. It is observed here, as well as in those Countries where the _Angina maligna_ was first taken notice of, that Children and young People are more exposed to it than Adults: A greater Number of Girls have it than Boys; more Women than Men; and the infirm of either Sex suffer more from it than the healthy and vigorous. If it breaks out in a Family, all the Children are commonly affected with it, if the healthy are not kept apart from the sick; and such Adults as are frequently with them, and receive their Breath near at hand, often undergo the same Disease.