A commentary on the dysentery: or, bloody flux / Translated from the Latin ... By John Ryan.

  • Mark Akenside
Date:
1767
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Credit: A commentary on the dysentery: or, bloody flux / Translated from the Latin ... By John Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the latter end of December 1763, two or more dyfenteries, fell un¬ der my immediate infpedtion, which drew a remarkable fever along with them : It is fufficient, if what we have advanced, be in general true ; although it may not always be found to be con¬ firmed by practice, and expe¬ rience. I t is frequently obferyable, that fuch as are afilidled with a dyfentery, are, both oftener and for a longer time than is agreed among authors, greatly afflidted with a fqueamifhnefs, and pro- penfity to vomiting. Some make mention of this accident, but as of a leffer inconvenience, which only fhews a kind of pain at the beginning of the diftemper. I in¬ deed have obferved patients, af¬ flidted with the dyfentery, vomit
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