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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    present day, which is not nearly allied to, or corresponds with, some disease which has pre- ceded it. Having adopted the alexipharmic (heating, sweating means, to drive the disease out through the skin) method in treating a few of the first cases, the result was unsatisfactory; when inclination and duty urged to an investi- gation of the nature of it, as it was exhibited, and to endeavour to ascertain what disease it might be associated with, and adopt a course of treatment accordingly. uthori- It appeared that epidemics were treated of by Sydenham, under three general heads. First, stationary fevers, or those produced by a peculiar constitution of the air: they exist for a certain time as the standing disease, pre- side over all others, or all others are affected by them. Of this kind may be enumerated plague, yellow fever, bilious autumnal fever, &c. The second he calls stationary intercur- rent fevers, or those that take place more or less in every year, and at particular seasons of the year; such as pleurisies, peripneumonies, quinsies, &c. Under the third head, he ar- ranges symptomatic intermittents, by which he means those diseases that partake of the sta- tionary and intermittent diseases combined. When it was taken into consideration that the intermittent, remittent, and bilious fevers had prevailed in the summer seasons for several