An inaugural dissertation on that grade of the intestinal state of fever known by the name of dysentery : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, 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 James Fisher, of Delaware, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society.

  • Fisher, James, 1774-1802.
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[1797]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on that grade of the intestinal state of fever known by the name of dysentery : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, 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 James Fisher, of Delaware, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *9 ) try, will at once fee the melancholy, yet too certain proofs of the exiilence of contagion—Of the precife nature of this contagion we are as yet wholly unacquainted ; we only know, that when introduced into the body, it mud, like marfli miaf- mata, prove a flimulus to the fanguiferous, and particularly to the arterial fyftem ; and by a Si- mulating power only, is it capable of producing fever. Dr. Rush afferts, that there can be only one remote caufe of fever, namely, fli- mulus ; whether from heat fucceeding to cold,. marfli, or human miafmata, contagions and poifons of all kinds, intemperance, paflions of the mind, Sec. all aft by a (limulating power in producing fever.* The contagion of the dyfentery, like moll other contagions, may be communicated by con- tact, or breathing infe&ed air in confined places, where many fick are crouded together. Another, and not lefs fruitful fource is, the excrements of patients labouring under this difeafe ; this indeed appears to be the principle fource of contagion in armies. Hence we fee the propriety of remo- ving the excrement as foon as voided, and of frequently changing the bed and body-linen of the patients ; this, by preferving cleanlinefs, will