An inaugural dissertation on the operation of pestilential fluids upon the large intestines, termed by nosologists dysentery. Submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College in the state of New-York, William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president, for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the 3d of May, 1797. By William Bay, citizen of the state of New-York. [Eight lines of quotations in Latin]

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