An account of the late epidemic ague : particularly as it appeared in the neighbourhood of Bridgnorth in Shropshire, in the year 1784 ... to which are added, some observations on a dysentery that prevailed at the same time.

  • Coley, William
Date:
1785
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Credit: An account of the late epidemic ague : particularly as it appeared in the neighbourhood of Bridgnorth in Shropshire, in the year 1784 ... to which are added, some observations on a dysentery that prevailed at the same time. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ >9 ] of the whole fyflera. The cold {hivering may be owing to the diminifhed adlion of the heart and arteries in propelling the blood into the veifels oil the fur face.—That a debility however caufed the difeafe, is further evident from its returning after the paroxyfms had ceafed for feveral days ; of * < which I had forne inflances: and the recurrence in all of them was plainly to be attributed, either to die patients’ negledt of medicines, or to the fretli application of fome debilitating power. in what particular manner the hate of debility brings on the cold ftage and the fpafm connetled I with it, is not perfectly underftood; though of the . facl itfelf there can be little fufpicion. Some iiluf- Ittration of this may arife from conhdering the ef- . feels of debility on other occalions, and in difeafes more apparently fpafmodic; particularly in the ' Epilepfy, where a preexiflent debility of the ner- I vous power, and confequent mobility, are plainly iometimes to be confidered as the principal cau- T fes of thefe affe&ions ; and the effedls of the E reme-
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