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.

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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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    time, and to which, and its analogous dis- eases, he has not, since that period, remitted in his attentions. The state of public opinion relative to the Dysentery cannot be unknown to any per- son, who has perused a single author on the subject: we find little harmony of sentiment among them on points of the first moment: some insist that Pyrexia is, and must be, always present: others too indiscriminately deny it; some will have the operation of cold, as the sole exciting cause: others in as unqualified a manner, confine its production to the agency of contagion ; some depend on purgatives, some on sudorifics : some rely on mercurials, and others again on the bark.— Such, I believe, will be found the state of public opinion respecting this disease; so much indeed do authors differ from each other, that we may remark of many of them, as Pringle does of Sydenham, and of Willis, that in the descriptions given by them of Dysentery, they scarcely agree in any one A 3 article.