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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    «l From the hiftory of the dyfentery which has now been given, it is evident, that it prevails chieflv at that feafon of the year, in which, intermitting and remitting fevers are rife: Hence I think, we may with propriety conclude, that it arifes from the lame general caufes, by which, thefe fevers are produced. The opinion, long fince advanced by Dr. Sy- denham, that the dyfentery was a fever turn- ed inwards upon the interlines/' is, in my mind, a veryjuft one; and indeed, the truth of it has been fo clearly eftablifhed by later experience, that it is almoft unneceffary for me to fay any thing in this place, on the fubjecl:. I (hall how- ever, quote a few paifages from fome of the moil refpedtable writers on this difeafe, merely wich a view to (hew, that Sydenham's opinion concern- ing it appears to have been accurate and well founded. We are furnifhed with many inftances which inconteflibly prove, that intermitting and remit- ting fevers frequently terminate in dyfentery, and vice ver/a. Dr. Cleg horn tells us, he has li- fer ved, that when one of thefe difeafes is fupprelf-