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 apeared in Poughkeepsie in 1832 / By Hunting Sherrill.

  • 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 apeared in Poughkeepsie in 1832 / By Hunting Sherrill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    trembling pulse.” It appears Mr. Bell gives a very accurate description of many cases of the winter epidemic, and an explanation of the cause of the irregular, small, and yielding states of the pulse. The remedy for such a state of disease, naturally indicated, was to excite the circulation and action of the cuta- neous and capillary vessels, and to abstract some of the blood, to relieve the engorgement of the large vessels; so that there might be a less quantity of blood to oxydate, that the celerity of the blood through the lungs might be increased, while the inflammatory action was subdued, and the system enabled to re- ceive the oxygene with greater ease. The Sydenham of our country, Dr. Rusb. suggests such a remedy, that where such an engorgement of stagnating blood has taken place, the best remedy is bleeding, in small quantity, and often repeated. By this mode. we give the viscera an opportunity of empty- ing their superfluous blood into the vessels, and thereby prevent their collapsing from a sudden abstraction of the stimalus which they contained. In the History of North Carolina, written by Dr. Williamson, he remarks, that bilious pleu- risies are frequent in that climate in the win- ter; and upon the approach of febrile symp- toms, some are apt, as they express themselves, B