A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies : ... to which is added, a practical treatise on scorbutic dysentery, with some facts and observations relative to scurvy / by R.W. Bampfield.

  • Bampfield, R. W. (Robert William), -1827.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies : ... to which is added, a practical treatise on scorbutic dysentery, with some facts and observations relative to scurvy / by R.W. Bampfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vll paEv Af;E. and it is but rarely that any otlier structural derangenient ot tiie liver lias been disclosed? suflicient to produce death, except what is oc- casioned bv its inflammation. Dr. R's dissec- tioiis, at new Orleans, exposed ‘‘ no morbid intestinal appearances sullicient to account for death,’' which was generally caused l)y he- patic abscess, “ without pain being felt in the right hypochondrium throughout the disease, either on inspiration, or strong pressure under the false ribs.”'^ These peculiarities, it is ap- prehended, cannot be very satisfactorily ex- plained : but it may be observed of the climate of New Orleans, at the winter period, when this disease prevailed, that the thermometer fell 6 or 7 degrees below the freezing point at night, and rose no higher during the day than to 30 or 38 degrees, and seldom above 50,” and it consequently resembled the frigid, rather than the torriil, zone, and could hardly be said to present cases of tropical dysentery. It may be further remarked, that the men sustained a trandtion •in about 15 days from Jamaica to a climate, ‘‘ where the weather was cold and rainy, with freipjent sharp frosts,”]* and that a sup- pression ot the cuticular discharges (so recently * P. 438 of Mr. J.’s work already quoted, f Ditto, p. 427.