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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    cd, the other often enfues ; nor is it uncommon for dyfenteric fevers to put on the form of ter- tians ; and for the fits of tertians, to be regularly accompanied by gripesand flools*. Dr. Moseley informs us too, that he had frequently obferved the fame circumflance to take place in the Weft Indies; and fays he has remarked, that as the '* flux conforms by the number of flools, and by its rapidity, to the degree, fo it does to the flate of the fever, of the feafon, when it pre- vails; the flools being more frequent, and all the fymptoms more aggravated, at thofe hours when the current fevers are in their exacerba- tion, and the reverfe, when thofe fevers are in their remifliont. The jail or (hip fever frequently too, af- fumes the form of dyfentery. Dr. Blane in his account of the difeafes incident to feamen, tells us, that when this fever prevailed on board of any fhip coming from a northern climate to the Wefl-indies, it was foon after its arrival there, * Difeafes of Minorca. f On tropical difeafes. A fymptomatic dyfentery fre- quently accompanies the autumnal fevers in Pennfylvania. In the hilly parts of the ftate, it has been remarked, that it prevails chief- ly on the high grounds; while remitting and intermitting fevers prevail in the neighbourhood below them.