A Treatise on the Malignant Angina
Subtitle: Or, Putrid and Ulcerous Sore-throat : To which are added, Some Remarks on the Angina Trachealis
By: By J. Johnstone, M.D. Physician at Worcester ....
Publisher: Printed and sold by E. Berrow; and sold by T. Becket, in the Strand, London
Published: 1779
Place of publication: Worcester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Other titles: Putrid and Ulcerous Sore-Throat.; De Angina Maligna.
Notes: The ESTC places this work with those of the elder James Johnstone, M.D. of Kidderminster 1730?-1802; the DNB and NUC distinguish him from his son of the same name, with dates 1754-1783; 'He graduated M.D.at Edinburgh in September 1773. His thesis 'De Angina Maligna', was recommended to the attention of physicians by Dr. Cullen. It was republished at Worcester in 1779 in an English translation, with considerable additions and some remarks on the angina trachealis.' He died after contracing gaol fever, in 1783 [DNB]

Dedication leaf reads: 'To the Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Governors, of the Worcester Infirmary; this Treatise is respectfully inscribed by The Author'; 'errata' note on verso; 'Preface', dated: 'Worcester, Dec. 17, 1778'.

'The principal part of this dissertation was published  ... at Edinburgh as a thesis' [Note in NUC].

Caption title: 'A Treatise on the Malignant Angina'.

ESTC918J9 [under James Johnstone M.D., of Kidderminster].

Translation, with additions, of the author's Latin thesis 'De Angina Maligna', 1773.