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
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[1805]
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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.

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    therto perused, that more distinctly declares the real nature of the contagious Dysentery than Etmuller, whose observations, though introduced here, unavoidably anticipate the •subject of the subsequent chapter.—After investigating the general productive cause of Dysentery, which he attributes to some acrid substance irritating the intestines, he ob- serves, Tom; ii.- p. 149, Porro ratione hu- *'jus causse materialis, (i. e. acris cujus- dam in intestinis) distinguenda est ante '* omnia Dysenteria, dum alia est benigna, '*^ vel maligna. Benigna ut plurimum si?ie ^^febre est, item 5i;/(? contagio, et tantum sporadic^, seu sparsim quosdam saltern homines in hoc, vel isto loco affligit: ** Maligna vero Dysenteria, ut plurimum '' conjun<5ta est cum febre malignu, inter- '* dum pestilentiali, simulque Epidemic^ *' grassatur, ac saspe integrani =regionem de- ^ vastat, et potenti contagio se multipii- *^ cat. P. ]42, he further add^, *' In ma- ^ *' ligna sagpius est conjunctafebris plus mi^n '' nus intensa, eaque interdum' J)etechialis. Lingua subalbida, mucilagine dens^ ob- sita, et si vehementius testuet corpus, nt-, gra etiam et sicca observatur, una cum summa virium prostatione. Grassatur a
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