Volume 1
An essay concerning the cause of the endemial colic of Devonshire, which was read in the Theatre of the College of Physicians, in London, on the twenty-ninth day of June, 1767, / by George Baker.
- Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet
- Date:
- 1767
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay concerning the cause of the endemial colic of Devonshire, which was read in the Theatre of the College of Physicians, in London, on the twenty-ninth day of June, 1767, / by George Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 3 ] contains a very full delcription of the malady, which is the fubjedt of our prefent inquiry. He informs us, that “ in “ the beginning of the Autumn 1724, “ it fpread itfelf over all the county “ of Devon, among the Populace “ efpecially, and thole who were not tc very elegant and careful in their “ diet; and that, though it may “ not rage with the fame degree of <c violence, and may affedt a vaftly “ lefs number of People, yet it infefts “ that County more or lefs every Au- <c tumn.” Whoever perufeth Dr. Hux- ham’s defcription, will readily de¬ termine the morbus colicus Damnonio- rum to be precifely the fame difeafe, which, in the year 1617, was defcribed by Francis Citois, a native of Poitiers, afterwards Phylician to the King of France,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30787932_0001_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
