Observations on that form of disease, nosologically called dysentery / by John Hoskins.

  • Hoskins, John, -approximately 1810.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Observations on that form of disease, nosologically called dysentery / by John Hoskins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION TO OBSERVATIONS ON THE DYSENTERY. THE Philanthropist, in casting his eyes around him, observes with pain, the melancholy tokens of misery, woefully depicted in the countenances of his fellow creatures. Many are the causes that give birth to these gloomy, and ill-boding signatures. Among the most distressing and prominent of which, is disease, the scourge of human existence in every age, and in every country. To alleviate misery, and enable man to enjoy an extensive portion of happiness, has been the first and most anxious emotion that has touched the bosom of every rational, humane and free enquirer. Hence, the exertions of man have been great, arduous and incessant, in unfolding the nature of dis- ease ; to discover thereby the means of preventing,