It is not certainly known how much longer it remained in these Countries, or to what others it was communicated at that time, its Declension being as obscure as the Causes it sprung from. That it wholly disappeared in these Parts, soon after the Time above-mention'd, seems probable, from the Silence of those Physicians, who have published their Observations made in the Places, which had so severely felt the Effects of this Distemper. Several Writers, as _Wierus_[4], _Forrestus_[5], _Ramazzini_[6], and others, take notice of epidemic Affections of the Throat, in some respects resembling the Disease here described; but a little Attention to the Symptoms of each, will, I think, discover an essential Difference between them. The same may be said of the Sore Throat and Scarlet Fever, which shew'd itself at _Edinburgh_ in 1733[7]. _Tournefort_, in his Voyage to the _Levant_[8], seems to have found the Disease we are treating of in the Islands of the _Archipelago_; at least as far as one can judge from the imperfect Description we have of it. His Account is as follows. "When we were in this Island (_Milo_), there raged a terrible Distemper, not uncommon in the _Levant_: It carries off Children in twice 24 Hours: It is a Carbuncle or Plague-Sore in the Bottom of the Throat, attended with a violent Fever. This Malady, which may be called the Child's Plague, is epidemical, tho' it spares adult People. The best way to check the Progress of it, is to vomit the Child the Moment he complains of a sore Throat, or that he is perceived to grow heavy-headed. This Remedy must be repeated, according as there is Occasion, in order to evacuate a sort of _Aqua fortis_, that discharges itself on the Throat. It is necessary to support the Circulation of the Juices, and the Strength of the Patient, with spirituous Things; such as the _Theriaca_, _Spir. vol. oleos. aromat._ and the like. The Solution of _Liquid Styrax_ in Brandy is an excellent Gargarism upon this Occasion. Tho' it is a Case that requires the greatest Dispatch, the _Levantines_ are seldom much in Haste in the Cure of any Disease." This Account does not disagree in general with that which has been left us of the _Morbus strangulatorius_; only he is singular in affecting it to arise from a kind of _Aqua fortis_ discharged upon the Parts: But his favourite Study had engrossed his Attention, and to this we must impute both the present Mistake, and his Want of sufficient Accuracy and Precision, when he treats upon medical Subjects.