Volume 2

Observations on the diseases which prevail in long voyages to hot countries, : particularly on those in the East Indies ; and on the same diseases as they appear in Great Britain. / By John Clark, M.D.

  • Clark, John, 1744-1805.
Date:
M. DCC. XCII. [1792]
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    difeafe *; and, when it is confidered, that inflammation and ulceration fo often affect the inteftines, it is not furprifing that the feeble means, hitherto propofed, have, in fuch cafes, fo generally proved ineffectual. Y¥ 3 For * Dr. Cleghorn obferves, «¢ That almoft all the dyfenteries 6‘ which fell under his obfervation, unlefs they were fpeedily ‘cured in the beginning, at beft proved obitimate, and too “‘ frequently fatal, in fpite of the many boafted fpecifics for *¢ this diftemper.”” Difeafes of Minorca, page 228. The candid Dr. Donald Monro alfo obferves, “« Upon my ‘t firft being employed in the military hofpitals in Germany, I ‘¢ was furprifed to fee fo many of the old dyfentric cafes end “ fatally; and, imagined I had not fallen upon the right “method of treating them: but upon confulting the other ‘‘ phyfical people employed in the fame fervice, I found them *¢ as unfuccefsful, as myfelf, after having tried a variety of és remedies: and at laft, I was convinced, that the difor- s¢ der will often end fatally, notwithftanding the ufe of what sé are efteemed the moft efficacious remedies, when once it has *¢ continued long, and injured the ftru€ture of the inteftines to *¢ a certain degree; and that, when this diforder is violent, «¢ the cure principally depends upon an early and fpeedy appli- <¢ cation of proper remedies, before the ftrength be exhautted, <¢ oy the ftructure of the bowels too much hurt. The bad “< fuccefs we had in treating thefe old cafes, may, perhaps, ‘* furprife thofe who have never practifed except in healthful “¢ cities, where the difeafe is commonly mild, and people apply «s foon for advice. But all thofe gentlemen who have had the <<care of military hofpitals, where the dyfentery has been «« frequent, and where the fick have often been fent a great “way, before they reached the hofpitals, muft be convinced “of the truth of what is here aflerted.”” Ob/fervations on the means of preferving the health of folders. Vol. 1. page .336.