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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    tion and greater diligence on our part, than that of which I am at prefent treating. For although the complaint in a few inftances, (and in thofe only when it is very mild) ceafes fpontaneoufly without medical aid ; yet, in the generality of ca- fes, unlefs a proper mode of treatment is inflitu- ted in the early ftage of the difeafe, we have often, too often indeed, reafon to regret its melancholy refult. The delay of timely affiflance for a few days; nay, when the diforder is very violent, for a few hours only ; often fruftrates our belt concerted meafurcs to arreft its progrefs. If upon being called to the patient during the early ftage of the difeafe, we find, that the dejections although frequent, ;. confift however, in part of natural feces, and are more efpecially unaccompanied by any difcharge of blood ; if the pain in the bowels and vomiting are not very harralfing ; and if the ftrength of the patient is but little exhaufced ; under fuch circumllanccs as thefe, a favourable iflUe may be expected. But if, on the contrary we arc not called, till the difeafe is far advanced, and a fever tend- ing to the typhus or gangrenous Mate has already taken place, accompanied by great debility, fre- quent vomiting, and fingultus; if the tormina and tenefmus are feverc, attended with frequent F