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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    jT . , [ 10 ] fpafmodic contraction, and is fo tightened up¬ on the inflamed parts which it is bound round* that it occafions very great anguifh, which is ft ill heightened by the drynefs of the parts within the affcion of the Sphinfter : for the conftant moiflure upon the furface of internal inflammations is a great alleviation of the pain they would other wife caufe. This laft fpecies of dyfenteric pain is well known to thofe who are afflicted with the Hemorrhoides, particularly the Csech It is this painful af¬ fection which induces that tenefmus fo infe- parable from the Dyfentery. The lingular aptitude and particular defti- nation of the fmall guts, beyond any other part of the alimentary canal for abforption, V renders them lets liable to fall into the inflam¬ matory date of the lower guts in this difeafe. As the fmall guts are principally appointed for taking up the chylify’d aliments, they are therefore far more abundantly ftored with chylous and other abforbent veflels than with excretories. The facility and expeditioufnels with which abforption is performed in them, renders their ultimate arterial veflels far left liable to obftruCtion. For the fame reafbn, when any inflammatory obftruction does hap¬ pen