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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    ( 3° ) be one of the beft means of preventing its gene- ration. The cloaths and every thing about the fick have been found to convey the contagion ofdyfentery; of this feveral inftances are men- tioned in the works of medical writers.—Croud- ing the fick together in tents and hofpitals are al- fo fruitful fources of it in this difeafe. This would teach us to have our patients placed in large and airy fituations, and the bed mould be placed in the middle of the room to prevent the contagion from adhering to the walls, which it has been found to do, and it is by that means accumula- ted, and a conftant fource of the difeafe is kept up. After endeavouring to eftablifti the identity of fever and dyfentery, and having pointed out its principal remote caules, it only now remains for us to attempt an explanation, why fever fome- times makes its appearance under the form ofdy- fentery?—or, in other words, its pp.edisposinc and exciting caufes. In thofe fituations, and during thole feafons, which arc found to be productive of marfliy ex- halation, the miafmata being equally applied to a whole neighbourhood, they muft confequently all be impregnated with the feeds of difeafe. But the ftimulus of the miafmata not always being of