A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies ; illustrated by cases and appearances on dissection : to which are added, practical treatises on scorbutic dysentery, on the morbus chylopoieticus and gastrodynia a fame ; with some facts and observations relative to scurvy in general, and a short account of the scorbutic disease that appeared at the Penitentiary, Millbank, Westminster / By R.W. Bampfield, Esq. Surgeon.

  • Bampfield, R. W. (Robert William), -1827.
Date:
1823
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Credit: A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies ; illustrated by cases and appearances on dissection : to which are added, practical treatises on scorbutic dysentery, on the morbus chylopoieticus and gastrodynia a fame ; with some facts and observations relative to scurvy in general, and a short account of the scorbutic disease that appeared at the Penitentiary, Millbank, Westminster / By R.W. Bampfield, Esq. Surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the 18th species of Sauvages, would more properly apper- tain to the genua scorbutus, and be thus classed according to its proximate cause and its mode of treatment. I shall then describe the species and varieties, which I have observed in tropical dysentery. • - -la ' J i 1 J x Species lma-—Dysenteria acuta.—Character.—While the feces are commonly retained, frequent evacuations from the intestines, consisting of mucus, serum, or blood, or a mixture of these, take place, and are preceded and at- tended by pain in some part of the abdomen, and accom- panied and followed by tenesmus: pyrexia is not often evident, but is sometimes urgent. - It varies in degree.—(A)—Dysenteria mitis.—In which the stools are not frequent; the quantity of mucus or se- rum evacuated is small, and rarely tinged with blood ; there is not any fever present; and the pain of the abdo- men is never constant, and is only felt, together with te- nesmus, about the periods of evacuation. (B.)—Dysenteria severa.—In which, the stools are fre- quent, and recur from twelve to forty-eight times or even oftener in twenty-four hours; the excretions of mucus, or serum, and the discharges of blood, or a mixture of these three, are copious; the tenesmus and tormina about the periods of evacuation are severely felt; but there is no constant, fixed, and acute pain in any part of the abdomen, or unequivocal synocha. (C.)—Dysenteria inflammatoria.—In which, there is a constant, fixed, acute pain of some part of the abdomen or