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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    ( *5 ) Samuel Cooper, will, I am perfuaded, place the matter beyond all poffible doubt. In the month of June 1795, W. C. a ftonc-cutter, was admitted into the Pennfylvania Hofpital with all the fymptoms of a true dyfentery. Upon his admiflion, a bed was provided for him in the lower fouth ward. A man who lay in the next bed to this patient, was in the courfe of a day or two feized with the difeafe ; and in a fhort fpace of time feveral of the patients in the ward be- came affetted with it. By order of the attend- ing phyiician, thefe patients were removed to a vacant apartment in the venereal houfe. On the fecond day after their removal, the nurfe who attended them, became affe&ed with the difor- der; and the venereal patients who were fitu- ated on the fame floor, were all, in a fhort time, attacked with it. The difeafe was violent, and in one or two inflances proved fatal. But although the above fact clearly proves the dyfentery to be fometimes contagious; yet, I am well aflured it is far from being always fo. The difeafe was epidemic, and raged with con- fiderable violence in Baltimore, during the latter part of the fummer, and autumn, of the year 1795; but as far as my own observation extend- ed, and from what I could learn from others, it was not in a fingle inftance, contagious.