Hyperanthraxis, or, the cholera of Sunderland / by W. Reid Clanny.

  • William Reid Clanny
Date:
1832
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Credit: Hyperanthraxis, or, the cholera of Sunderland / by W. Reid Clanny. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    which they were pleased to present to me at a time when I was assailed by popular clamour for conscientiously performing my professional duty. The personal exertions of the Rev. Robert Gray, Rector of Sunderland, during the visitation, were uniform with his other acts of charity and benevolence. In prosecuting my inquiries into the nature and method of cure of this epidemic, I have held in remembrance the words of Cotes— Obtinebit igitur apud probos et asquos judices praestantissima philosophandi ratio, quae fundatur in experimentis et observa- tionibus. f 1 have ventured to give an appropriate name to this pestilence, to which I am prompted from my own experiments. I expect that it will be received by the medical faculty instead of cholera, literally a flowing of bile, though in this disease, when formed, no bile flows, as far as I have been able to ascertain from per- sonal observation. Hyperanthraxis ex super et av%a^ carbo, anglice, excess of carbon. r
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