An inaugural dissertation on the cholera morbus : submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York, William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president; for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the sixth day of May, 1794 / by Henry Mead, citizen of the state of Connecticut.

  • Mead, Henry, -1838.
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1794
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the cholera morbus : submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York, William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president; for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the sixth day of May, 1794 / by Henry Mead, citizen of the state of Connecticut. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    refpiration, are owing to the fpafmodic affecftion and irritability of the fyftem. The fymptoms of this difeafe are fo well marked, and fo evident in all its ftages, that I am difpofed to think the above defcription will be fufficient to diftinguim it from any other. Dr. Cullen divides cholera into two fpecies--, the one, fpontaneous, and arifing in warm feafons without any manifeft caufe •, the other, accidental, or when arifing from any poifonous matter taken into the flomach. The caufes of the latter are too evident to need any further investigation •, but the former, which we are now to confider, I mail endeavour to defcribe according to the ide. have been able to form of its nature and d tinction. In order, then, to a more intimate-knowledge of this difeafe, and for the purpofe of effecting a fpeedy and fafe cure, it will be firft nece£ary to pay fome attention to its caufes. Caufes.