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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    ( {4 ) given rife to the fuppofition is, there being fo frequently an acid in the ftomach, and the matter evacuated often of an acid nature. But this, I believe, is rather an accidental fymptom, which arifes from the relaxation and debility of the di- geftive organs, always happening previous to an attack of the cholera, when, being rendered incapable of performing their ufual office, digef- tion is impeded j and we may readily conceive why acidity, and other crudities in the ftomach and interlines., fo often accompany this difeafe. From thefe circumftances I am inclined to believe that acidity may be a frequent attendant on cholera. as the difeafe has very often happened inde- of this, and without any previous change in diet, or in the manner of life, that ie obferved,* and even in thofe that have ntirely upon flefh, I am difpofed to doubt :hat it ever acts as an exciting caufe ;-f- and when- it does happen, it may, with more proprie- be confidered oniy as producing greater pre- ion. Proximate * Cullen's Firft Lines. -f See the fecond volume of Medical Comment, where there is an objection to the fummcr fruits ever producing this difeafe.