An inaugural dissertation on the dysentery : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania ; on the 12th day of May, 1797 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Colin Mackenzie, of Baltimore, member of the Philadelphia Medical and Chemical Societies.

  • Mackenzie, Colin, 1775?-1827.
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[1797]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the dysentery : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania ; on the 12th day of May, 1797 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Colin Mackenzie, of Baltimore, member of the Philadelphia Medical and Chemical Societies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nature in ample dignity appears, And all her works, a hand divine declares. We trace in Nature's moft minute defign, The fignature and ftamp of power divine. I have chofen the Dyfentery for the theme of my inaugural differtation, not with the moft diftant view of doing it more juftice than it has hitherto met with, or of faying any thing new on the fubjedr. ; but merely becaufe I have had fome opportunities of becoming acquaint- ed with it.—And although it has heretofore been treated of at large, by many of the moft refpectable medical writers which the world has afforded, yet, even at the prefent day, phyficians appear to be undecided in their opi- nions refpecling it.—Its ftill frequent occur- rence and melancholy effects, will, therefore, I hope, be admitted as a fufficient apology, for every pofTiblc attempt to inveftigate its caufe, to elucidate its nature, or to obviate with fuc- cefs, its fatal termination. I submit this differtation to the examina- tion of the medical faculty, and to its fate.