A treatise on bowel complaints: intended for the use of physicians, families, parents, masters of vessels etc. in the United States / By John G. Vought.
- John G. Vought
- Date:
- 1823
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on bowel complaints: intended for the use of physicians, families, parents, masters of vessels etc. in the United States / By John G. Vought. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tivity of this pestilential fluid, which becomes! the cause of those diseases. In what manner Dysenterties are Infeetious. DysENTERIES are sometimes infectious; but whether infectious or not,depends upon circumstances. When a person, labouring under a malignant case of dysen- tery, is kept in a pestilential atmosphere, as. is fre- quently the case, in departments. which are neglected during the confinement of the sick; when the room is not frequently and sufficiently ventilated ; when the sheets are not frequently changed ; when the fil- thy and feetid stools are not immediately removed from the sick department ; and when strict attention to cleanliness is not observed by the nurses, as is fre- quently the case in jails, sieges, camps, and in many other places, under these circumstances, dysentery may be infectious. But when every attention is paid to cleanliness, and when all putrid substances are re- moved from the habitation of the sick, ] am. disposed to believe that the disease is not capable of being com- raunicated from one person to another. It is.to this day a subject of great dispute,and warm contests are entered into, by different parties, respect- ing the doctrine of contagion in those diseases caus- ed by pestilential fluids. It is a subject that I donot wish to enter into; nor will the limits of this small vol-. ume admit of its; and more than all, I do not consider it important to the majority of those who “ please to read this. work..](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33028187_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
