Disputatio medica inauguralis, de dysenteria epidemica ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Benjaminus Clifton.

  • Clifton, Benjamin, 1747-1798
Date:
1766
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    tur, maxime eo periclitantes, idemque fkepe febribus malis putentibus adhaerens; prae¬ terea vapores fanguinis putentis foli eum ali¬ quando efficientes ('w) ; tum natura ejus ma- ftifeflo contagiofa, quippe plerique morbi contagiofi putente elTe natura conceduntur (x); ad hoc caufae ejufdem omnes putredinem fo¬ ventes ; porro foeda et putens alvo reddito¬ rum odor ; denique magna aeris copia femper in intellinis nafcens; poftremo ea quae cum circa morbi finem apparent, tum cadavera in- cifa, putredinem inteflinorum fui fle demon- («te) Pringelius fic loquitur : “ This notion of a pu- trid fermcnt was further confirmed to me, by a cafe which occurred, of one who was feized, indeed in a fliglit degree, but with a true dyfcntery accompanied with bloody ftools, by making cxperiments upon human blood, become putrid by fhmding for fome months in a clofe phi- al. This mftance feemed to me the more decifive, as it happened at a time when the diftemper was not heard of; and to a perfon in perfeft health, who had former- ]y attended many dyfenteric patients without being in- fe&ed.” Obferv. on the dif. of the army, part. iii. ch« vi. § 3. (x) Hoffmanus, ‘c Omnes affe&iones,” ait, ct quae contagio inficiunt, putridas exhalationes pro vera caufi et fundamento agnofeunt, quae altius penetrando, inftar feminii feu fermenti humores jam difpofitos inquinant, et in fuam convertunt naturam.” Opera, tom. iii. de fcorbuto. fiirantia.