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 gripings had almofl. ceafed,. on home people the tenefmus feemed to be more urgent and importunate ; that fharp and pu¬ trid matter, at flrft abounding in the gut jejunum and ileum, now flowing only from' the frnall veflels of the reftum. From this conftitution of the difeafc it hap¬ pens, that when a patient may feem to himfelf and his phylician; to be out of danger, yet his ftools may be tinged with bloody ftreaks, or fome fmall appear¬ ances of bloody matter ; and yet, in the firfl: and mod dan¬ gerous ftage of the difeafe, no blood is evacuated: for, flnce from the long continuance of the diflemper, the coats of the in- tefline rectum, and the veflels in¬ herent in them, are fo emaciat¬ ed and thinned, that they are wounded with the leaft ftrain at ftool.
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