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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    Hence, the divifton of the Dyfentery, as was formerly obferved, in the hiftory of the difeafe, into two diftind dates. i ft. The purely febrile, or fpafmodic date, in which there is no inflammation of the inner furface, or of any part of the inteftinal canal. 2d. The febrile and erythematic ftate, in which there is added to the purely fe- brile or fpafmodic ftate, an inflammation of the erythematic kind, on the inner fur- face of the inteftines ; this inflamma- tion, efpecially in the fatal cafes of the difeafe, penetrating farther into the fub- ftance of the large inteftines *. This teamen, efpecially of the warmer climates.—From this book we have already given fome quotations; and we fubjoin here the following general idea of the nature of the Dyfentery, referring to the work itfelf for any particular detail. “ Fluxes feem to arife in the fame circumftances, 2nd to be owing to the fame general caufes, as fevers. They may in fome fenfe be confidered as fevers, at- tended with peculiar fymptoms in confequence of a determination to the bowels, juft as fevers in cold climates are fometimes attended with rheumatifm or catarrh.” * We have availed ourfelves of the doctrines of Dr. Cullen, as they are deducible from the fadts and phenomena