Essays on the origin, progress and treatment of dysentery and erysipelas : to which is added an enquiry into the nature, causes and treatment of pseudo buboes / by James Bankier.

  • Bankier James.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Essays on the origin, progress and treatment of dysentery and erysipelas : to which is added an enquiry into the nature, causes and treatment of pseudo buboes / by James Bankier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. DYSENTERY. Dedication. Preface. Introduction. CHAP. I. Page. Definition and symptoms of Dysentery. . 1 CHAP. JI. The causes of Dysentery 20 Sec. I.—Bad fruits and indigestible food 20 Bad water 24 Hepatic derangement 26 Vitiated bile, or other secretions 28 Odour from putrid substances 29 n.—Cold and heat with atmospherical vicissi- tudes 2Q Irregular habits of life , 34 Marsh Miasmata 3g Endemic and epidemic dysentery 43 Is dysentery contagious f 51 III.—Proximate causes ..... The true proximate cause 61 Inflammation , CHAP. III. Sec. I.—Prognosis II-—Diagnosis g9 Morbid appearances 34