Observations on the Laws Governing the Communication of Contagious Diseases, and the Means of Arresting Their Process: Read Before the Literary and ... on the 9th of June, 1814 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Observations on the Laws Governing the Communication of Contagious Diseases, and the Means of Arresting Their Process: Read Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, on the 9th of June, 1814

Another disease which I have placed in the same class with the plague, and have considered as governed by the same laws of commu nication, is dysentery. By this disease I mean not that local affection of the bowels which is frequently symptomatic of diarrhoea, and unac companied with fever, but that form of it which has been described by Pringle, Blane, and other practical writers, under the title of epidemic dysentery, or the dysentery of camps.'

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