Observations on the simple dysentery, and its combinations : containing a review of the most celebrated authors who have written on this subject, and also an investigation into the source of contagion in that, and some other diseases / By William Harty.

William Harty

Date:: [1805]

Credit: Observations on the simple dysentery, and its combinations : containing a review of the most celebrated authors who have written on this subject, and also an investigation into the source of contagion in that, and some other diseases / By William Harty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$as it were, clear, with sudden prostration of strength: in the other they are hloody, but the strength remains tolerable; these are obviously Cholera and Dysentery, the former of which usually takes precedence in point of time, as it general]^ appears earlier in the autumnal season.* -i ..-•.,■ f—r That no lesjsantelligent Amters have fallen into; the same error with Willis, of con- founding Cholera with Dysentery, though they point out at the very instant the great danger of treating them alike, will appear hj SL shorte xtraet from Zimmermann, whom we have seen: countenancing Willis by refer- ing his Dy^enteria incruenta to the malig- nant species of the disease.—Dr. And. Wilson in a sensible treatise on autumnal Dysentery, has pointed out otiie passage, where he seems to reduce Cholera t<) the class of Dysentery, if I am not misled, says Dr. Wilson, by what Zimmermann states in ,p, \64; The ; r*j7HofFman, whose accurate Diagnovjs between Cho- lera and Dysentery 1 have already given, understood full well the nature of the Dysenteria incruenta, as appears by the very tirst passage in that chapter whence the Diag- nosis has been taken : Ccelius Aurelianus, inquit, Cho- leram per fellifluam passlonem interprelatur, et Wil- *■* .lisiils DySinteriam incTueniam adpellat.''-^ stools$