Observations on the acute dysentry : with the design of illustrating its causes and treatment.

  • Rollo, John, -1809.
Date:
1785
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Credit: Observations on the acute dysentry : with the design of illustrating its causes and treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t-eric fymptoms very Toon alter their ap- pearance. At the time this change hap- pens, the griping is more fevere and con- stant, it is not fo fenfibly relieved by de- jection, and with it there is a general fore- nef> over the belly; the griping as it were terminating in a diffufed pain. The dif- eafe continuing, this forenefs or diffufed pain increafes, the griping becomes more intolerable, and a vomiting or irritable ffate of the ftomach enfues, with an ap- thous appearance in the mouth. When the difeafe has thus proceeded, the patient is in imminent danger: For fhould a favourable change not fpeedily happen, a ceffation of pain takes place, then death. The fever, with which the Dyfentery is pathognomonically diftinguifhed from all other difeafes of the bowels, is of va- rious durations. When intermittent, it may be of fhort continuance, as the dif- eafe by an early and judicious application of medicine is fpeedily removed. When* remittent, or of a more continued form, its period of duration is longer, and may B 3 be