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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    This divifion. of the Dyfentery is of ef- fential importance, in forming the bafis of a rational and fuccefsful practice. On this bafis are founded the principles of the treatment. phenomena of the Dyfentery. It is prefumed, we have extended their application fo as to explain more fatisfaCtorily the proximate caufe of that dileafe ; and we truft our facts, and the reafoning deduced from, them, have fome weight in fupporting thefe doCtrines, fo far as they are applied. However, it is very probable the view we have given of this fubject may be defective; we know it is im- perfect. But if it fhall prove, on a further inveftiga- tion, more agreeable to the phenomena of the dif- eafe, than any view hitherto given, it deferves atten- tion. As fucceeding enquiries point out its errors and defedts, the author will correCt and fupply them. Should a view be hereafter prefented, altogether more clear, fatisfaCtory, and demonftrable, he fhall readily turn his eyes from the one he efpoufes, and beftow them upon it. * OBSER-