Observations on the history and treatment of dysentery and its combinations : with an examination of their claims to a contagious character, and an enquiry into the source of contagion in its analogous diseases, angina, erysipelas, hospital gangrene and puerperal fever / by William Harty.

Date:
1847
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Credit: Observations on the history and treatment of dysentery and its combinations : with an examination of their claims to a contagious character, and an enquiry into the source of contagion in its analogous diseases, angina, erysipelas, hospital gangrene and puerperal fever / by William Harty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sana sibi visa) was suddenly attacked in the morn- ing, after returning from church, vomitibus ac de- jectionibus alvinis, adeo frequentibus, conjunctis modo lypothymiis, modo convulsionibus intercur- rentibus [were not these the cramps of cholera?] ut circa horain llm p. m. jam per semihoram pro vere mortuahabereter: rediit tamensensim ad se et intra biduum faucibus mortis erepta est. Who can read these characteristic descriptions, and not at once re- call to memory the scenes incessantly presented to our eyes during the prevalence of epidemic cholera in 1832 ? The frequent and copious discharges up- wards and downwards; the rapid sinking and al- tered appearance; the quick failure of the pulse, and its occasional revival; the coldness, not merely of the extremities, but of the whole body; the cardial- gia summa et subita; the rapid fatality, together with other symptoms which he elsewhere enume- rates; the oculi insigniter cavi, and the voce privantur, evince the close consanguinity, if not identity, of Degner's epidemic with the cholera of 1832, though this latter, as did Degner's occasion- tlie disease to the acridity and not to the absence of that secre- tion. Bomim fuit indicium qui bilem flavam et adhuc maps, qui bilem viridem, quocunque morbi tempore, vel sponte vel me- dicamento exhibito, vomitu vel dejectionibus alvinis, excernebant: hoc ipso sa;pe omnis mali fomes quasi una vice auferebantur. Such a discharge is good in dysentery, but still more so in cho- lera, as being more decisive in the latter of the removal of the great cause of the disease.