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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    (C.)—In which, the chronic stage of dysentery is pro- tracted by an ulceration or excoriation of the intestines; the diarrhoea and morbid secretions are maintained; and pus is observed in the evacuations. (D.)—In which, the chronic stage is protracted by a diseased enlargement of the mesenteric glands, and with the following variety, may be considered symptomatic. (E.)—In which, it is maintained by an abscess formed in one of the abdominal viscera or their membranes, and is generally accompanied by hectic fever. In this enumeration, many varieties are omitted, which have been described by Dr. Cullen and other nosologists; but the omission has been confined to those, which do not require a distinct treatment, or which have not occurred in tropical practice. Although Dr. Cullen’s character of the order of proflu- via* is applicable only in part to dysentery, for there is very rarely fever, where there is simply an increased ex- cretion of intestinal mucus; although it does not supply the constant, acute, and fixed pain of the inflammatory variety, which his character of phleginasifef does; although even practical good might result from transplanting it to the order of phlegmasiae, for there is extreme danger in treating a severe disease, possessing the character of phleg- masiae, with the mild remedies adapted to the genera of • “Py rexia cum excretione auctii, naturaliter non sanguinea.” f “ Febris synocha; phlogosis, vel dolor topicus simul laesll parti* intern® functione; sanguis missus et jam concretui, superficiem coria- eeam albam ostendens.”