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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    Gee. - Further, that the conftrition of the | colon and the fpafm on the extreme veffels are produced in the fame manner, and are conneéted, is evident from the fact of the griping, or the peculiarly dyfenteric fymptoms going off at the fame time with the fpafm on the extreme veffels. The dyfenteric fymptoms appear in the parox- yim of fever, and they difappear with it. See the cafes in the hiftory ABC. They alfo are increafed and alleviated in the ex- acerbations and remiffions of fever. See the cafes D E. The cafe C is peculiarly ‘in point. This patient had only a grip- ing in the cold ftage of the paroxyfm, rR | which moifture are abfolutely neceffary. Hence it is proba- ble the Dyfentery may arife from any caufe of a feda- tive nature, which produces original fever; but it muft be joined with the effects of cold and moifture. This merits further attention ; our faéts and experience en- able us only to ftate, in a particular manner, the caufes of the Dyfentery 2s more commonly attributed to marfh effluvia.—Is the Dyfentery, as produced in Dr. Lind’s cafes, contagious, or does the produétion of the Dyfentery in fuch inftances entirely depend on the ac- tion of cold and moifture along with contagions? and when the former do not aflift, does the latter merely produce the fever which gave rife to them ¢
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