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

  • Hoskins, John, -approximately 1810.
Date:
1804
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    cd principles in the science of medicine, nor shall they be merely analogical; but actual observation, so far as such observation is derived from appearances, shall be called in to assist the reader in drawing an accurate conclusion. Every form of disease in attacking the animal frame, invariably fixes on that part, which, under the action of the then exciting causes, will most readily assume irregular or diseased action. If we seek out this part, we shall find it to be that in which stimuli, either from their excessive or deficient action, have induced debility in the greatest degree. Now, the causes inducing the Dysentery, and the mode of its appearance at least afford us strong arguments that the alimentary canal is the part peculiarly acted on by remote and exciting causes; and further, that this part, in obedience to the laws of nature, too often deleterious, is the first to put on diseased action. The many instances in which this form of fever has been induced by an over portion of exercise, a full meal, or a glass of wine, and the fact that declares the discharge of blood, and the attendant morbid symp- toms to be often proportionate with the degree of de- rangement in the arterial system, as manifested by the pulse, prove* nothing against the doctrine contend- ed for; but which, when duly considered, seem to be