An inaugural dissertation, on cholera morbus : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine : on the twelfth day of May, A.D. 1791 / by David Hosack, A.B. of New-York.

  • Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
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MDCCXCI [1791]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation, on cholera morbus : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine : on the twelfth day of May, A.D. 1791 / by David Hosack, A.B. of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It for the mod part attacks in Paroxyfms, which however are repeated very irregularly like other difeafesj it has its Premcni.'crsf which are acid eructations and griping pains, particularly in the region of the ftomach, occafioning for the mod parr, a fenfe of distention fimiiar to that from flatulency as in Dyfpepfia;---to ihefe, add Naufea, followed with vomiting, and the fymp- toms above mentioned ;—4the difeafe thus con- tinuiq^, the abdomen becomes hard and ex- tremely painful to the touch, accompanied with great heat and anxiety, which are again follow- ed with cold clammy fweats ; the pulfe now be- comes fmall, frequent, and very irregular, often times intermitting and fcarcely perceptible,—the countenance pale, with every other appearance of approaching death, as a coldnefs of the extre- mities—fubfulcus tendinum, &c.~-This, I be- lieve, is a true defcription of the difeafe if violent and left to nature, when it for the moil part ter- minates fatally, and that as is generally obferved B 2 upon