Quinn R W
Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37212.
Rev Infect Dis. 1991 Nov-Dec;13(6):1243-4. doi: 10.1093/clinids/13.6.1243.
Case histories recorded by Hippocrates around 400 B.C. describe the clinical manifestations of scarlet fever and rheumatic fever, although the entities are not identified by name. Although the descriptions are not as detailed or complete as they would be today, they strongly suggest the existence of scarlet fever and rheumatic fever at that time. Hippocrates' references to these illnesses were presumably the first to be documented and/or discovered, as a thorough search of the worldwide medical literature revealed no prior descriptions.
希波克拉底在公元前400年左右记录的病史描述了猩红热和风湿热的临床表现，尽管当时并未明确指出这两种疾病的名称。虽然这些描述不像今天这样详细或完整，但它们有力地表明当时已经存在猩红热和风湿热。对全球医学文献进行全面检索后发现，此前并无相关描述，因此希波克拉底对这些疾病的提及大概是首次被记录和/或发现。
