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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    every afternoon. This attack had been repeated four- teen days. The fever with the griping and fmall ftools continued until next morning, when an universal fweat took place ; and then thefe fymptoms difappear- ed. During the intermiftion, however, which was about feven hours, he had two or three thin ftools, larger than in the time of the paroxyfm, and without griping or being tinged with blood. The bark in large dofes, joined with opium, in fix days removed the difeafe; and in twelve days more he was reftored to his ufual health. Case B. ‘John Arden, of the Royal Artillery, AFFORDS a cafe of Dyfentery, which run into a quotidian form. During the paroxyfm he had the dyfenteric fymptoms, and they difappeared with it. In the intermiftion, he was free of any bowel com- plaint. See our Obfervations on the Difeafes of St. Lucia, Cafe the 8th. Case C. Alexander Caldert of the 71ft Regiment. THIS man had a regular paroxyfm of fever every evening, generally making its appearance betwixt the hours of four and feven o’clock. The cold ftage continued about an hour, and the hot ftage until morn- B 4 ing,