Remarks on the dysentery and hepatitis of India / by E.A. Parkes.

Date:
1846
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    perience of it in purpura and scurvy has been of course limited; but I have certainly never seen such good effects from any other remedy in these diseases, when properly administered. Perhaps some of the combinations of the different varie- ties of turpentine might be useful; the prophylactic treat- ment is much easier than the curative. Dysentery with Remittent Fever. This association is very common in certain places; the forms vary according to the several varieties of the remittent fever or of the dysentery. The following are the chief varieties:— 1. Regular ague with dysentery; the ague being gene- rally of the cpiotidian or tertian type. 2. Irregular ague (that is, ague with short irregular in- tervals) with dysentery. 3. Either of these forms with asthenic diarrhoea. 4. Common bilious remittent fever with diarrhoea or dy- sentery. 5. Malignant remittent with diarrhoea or dysentery. The third form will not be treated of now, as its proper place is under the head of Remittent Fever, to which it is more nearly allied than to dysentery. The last form I have not seen, and have merely included it to complete the series. From the extreme difficulty of treating the fourth form, I should imagine the malig- nant form, if the dysentery be at all severe, to be almost incurable. I shall describe the two first varieties together, and after- wards the fourth variety.