An essay on epidemics : as they appeared in Dutchess county, from 1809 to 1825: also, a paper on diseases of the jaw-bones; with an appendix, containing an account of the epidemic cholera, as it appeared in Poughkeepsie in 1832 / By HuntingSherrill.

  • Sherrill, Hunting, 1783-1866.
Date:
1832
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Credit: An essay on epidemics : as they appeared in Dutchess county, from 1809 to 1825: also, a paper on diseases of the jaw-bones; with an appendix, containing an account of the epidemic cholera, as it appeared in Poughkeepsie in 1832 / By HuntingSherrill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    seen affecting patients somewhat older. I saw one of a female child, aged about seven years. Cases of the complaint were always more frequent in the winter season than at any other; and during the periods when a humid atmo- sphere prevailed. It existed in the apartments on the ground-floor of the Almshouse ; and the little sufferers were generally, upon the ap- pearance of it, removed to a higher and better ventilated situation. Every medical man knows the pernicious effects which cold and moisture produce in children; and that those thus ex- posed, rarely escape disease of some sort. No doubt can exist that the diet of the house had also an agency in creating this disorder. We cannot deny the connexion and influence of local disease with general disorder of the di- gestive functions. To a vitiated or depraved state of the chylopoietic organs, must be at- tributed many of the cases we observe of local derangement of structure and function, whe- ther of the muscular fibre or of the osseous system. The sceptical may consult on this head, Abernethy on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Disease. The rapidity of this disorder was often asto- nishing, though in particular instances the patient lingered out some ten or fourteen davs