An inaugural dissertation on the Prunus virginiana, commonly known in the United States by the name of wild cherry-tree : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing ..., the Trustees & Medical Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the twenty-seventh day of May, 1802, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Charles Morris.
- Morris, Charles, active 1802.
- Date:
- 1802
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the Prunus virginiana, commonly known in the United States by the name of wild cherry-tree : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing ..., the Trustees & Medical Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the twenty-seventh day of May, 1802, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Charles Morris. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![about to put on the nature of a Diarrhoea, our bark, not only from its peculiar qualities just ] mentioned, but also from its great astringency* bids fair to be an efficacious remedy. In Diarrbtsa. It is evident, admitting this form of disease to consist in an increased evacuation irom the exhalents and excretories on the internal sur- face of the intestines, that the bark of the Pru- nus Virginiana will be efficacious, when its use is not forbid by the presence of an inflammatory diathesis. Its efficacy in this disease is evinced by the following case, communicated to me by my obliging friend Mr. Shaw the senior student at the Aims-house of this Cit , who gave cur medicine a trial in compliance v. ith my particu- lar request. Mr. Shaw says, On the 50th of March 1802, I. A. asred 33 was admitted into the Alms- house for a Diarrhoea of long standing, by which he is much emaciated; and his feet are affected with ocdematous swellings. 31st. There being no marks of an inflamma- tory diathesis in his system, he was ordered fif- teen grains of the powdered bark, gotten from the trunk of the Prunus Virginiana, to be taken three times a day.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21142452_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
