An inaugural dissertation on the influenza : 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 Peter Irving, citizen of the state of New-York.

  • Irving, Peter, 1772-1838.
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1794
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the influenza : 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 Peter Irving, citizen of the state of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 3* ) Concerning the nature of fynochus fever, Phyfi- cians entertain very different fentiments. One party fuppofes that it is induced by the fame caufes which occafion fynocha ; that it is in fact a real fynocha ; and that the fymptoms of typhus which attend its latter ftages, exift in confequence of the previous in- flammatory ftate being allowed to run on to indirect debility.* The fupporters of the other fide of the queftion af- fert, that it is only a variety of typhus fever, and that the difference is produced by the caufes of typhus ope- rating on a fyftem pofTefTed of confiderable vigor, or what is termed a fthenic or phlogiftic diathefi3. I con- fefs that I am rather difpofed to fubfcribe to the latter opinion.. In confirmation I would obferve, that the influenza was accompanied, even at its commence- ment, with a degree of languor and deprefllon of fpi- rits, which are never attendant on pure fynocha fever: and though the pulfe and other fymptoms were fuch as denoted an increafe of excitement, which was al- fo evidenced by the falutary effects of debilitating re- medies; yet this increafe was no more than generally attends the fir ft ftages of fynochus: and 1 think it probable, that the very near approach of it, in fome cafes, to fynocha, was occafioned, in addition to the fthenic * This appears to be the opinion of Dr. Rufh, of Phila- delphia ; and it was on this principle that he recommended blood-letting and cathartics fo ftrenuoufly in the late malig- nant fever—with a view of preventing indirect debility.