Observations on the acute dysentry : with the design of illustrating its causes and treatment.

  • Rollo, John, -1809.
Date:
1785
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Credit: Observations on the acute dysentry : with the design of illustrating its causes and treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We fee by the fadts, that fever is an ef- iential part of the difeafe, and always con- nedted with the affedtion of the bowels, and when both continue, inflammation, ulce- ration, and even gangrene enfue. Dr. Cul- len’s account of the proximate caufe, there- fore, is only an explanation of the fymp- toms of the Dyfentery affedling the bow- els in the early part of the difeafe; and in this view and extent, it gives one, the moft fatisfadtory and confiftent with the pheno- mena of the difeafe of any yet propofed. But we muft go further, and examine the proximate caufe of the fever and of the inflammation, connedting thefe with the proximate caufe of the bowel affection juft ftated. Dr. CULLEN’s do&rine of fever is, “ That the remote caufes are certain fedative powers applied to the r.ervous fyftem, which diminifhing the energy of the brain. large, and the reafons and fa&s with which he fupports it. By doing fo, he will more readily underhand the opinion wc have formed, and arc about to explain.