An essay on the autumnal dysentery, with an introduction and notes, containing occasional remarks on Dr. Zimmerman, &c. on the same subject / [Andrew Wilson].

  • Wilson, Andrew
Date:
1777
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Credit: An essay on the autumnal dysentery, with an introduction and notes, containing occasional remarks on Dr. Zimmerman, &c. on the same subject / [Andrew Wilson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 6 ] tom; tho’ afymptomatlc heat and fever attends every inflammation of any confequence: but in this difeafe, as in the Pleurify, Peripneu- many, acute Rhemnatiiin, &c. the firft attack of local pain and inflammation is ufhered in by the common fymptoms of a fever. Laffi- tude, coldnefs, Shivering or trembling, fuc- ceecled by febrile heat, drought, &c. precede or accompany the firft accefs of pain and gripings in the lower belly; and frequently alfo in the back oppofite to the windings of the colon, are foon followed by flimy, bloody, fetid, unnatural dejections by ftool. This ob- fervation renders it not altogether groundleft to have fome refpeft to a crifis in the courfe of this difeafe : indeed, though fome other fymp¬ toms, fucri as Diarrhea, Hiccup, &c. which are rather ftiperinduced as confequences of the original clifeafe, may run out to a con- fiderable length of time; yet I have rarely ob~ ferved, in peribns who recover, that the proper dyfenteric complaints and ftools continue with obftinacy, and unmixed with natural feces beyond the fourteenth or fifteenth day, unleis the ulceration has been very great, the villous coat much abraded, or the difeafe un¬ skilfully treated. An inflammation or load of humours falling upon