Excerpt from The Study of Medicine, Vol. 3 of 5 In saying that the denomination scarlatina was first applied to this disease by British writers, Dr. Willah can only mean that it was by British writers first applied technically and introduced, as a professional term, into the Medical Vocabulary for the term itself The term is Italian, and was long as a vernacular name, in use on the shores of the Levant before it was imported into our own country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.