Observations on the acute dysentery, with the design of illustrating its causes and treatment / [John Rollo].

  • John Rollo
Date:
1786
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Credit: Observations on the acute dysentery, with the design of illustrating its causes and treatment / [John Rollo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fentery occurs, and in fome feafons is the anoft general difeafe. Thefe feafons are, when the atmofphere is moift and cold, The Dyfentery was a difeafe that often happened, and proved fatal, in St. Lucia, Among all the dyfenteric cafes we met with, there was no one of them produced by contagion. Every patient having been placed in marfhy fituations, and expofed to cold and moifture. Bi It is a curious, though undoubted fact, that contagion feldom appears ; and when it does appear, its effects are confined and limited, in the Weft Indies *. . In the ar- : tillery * Dr. Blane, in his Obfervations on the Difeafes of Seamen, fays, ‘* There is reafon to think, that the open air very foon diffipates and renders inert all in- fections of the volatile kind, and ef courfe the warmer the air is, the more readily will it have this effe&. It is accordingly obferved, that infe€tion is much lefs apt to be generated about the perfons of men, and that it adheres to them for a much lefs fpace of time, in a hot climate, than in a cold or temperate one. ‘This isa remark, which, fo far as ] know, has not been made by any author; and, till obfervation fuggefted it to me, I fancied the reverfe to be the truth. I have feen fo many inftances of filth and crowding, in fhips and wa pitals
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