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Excerpt from An Inaugural Dissertation on Dysentery: Submitted to the Public Examination of the Faculty of Physic, Under the Authority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the State of New-York, William Samuel Johnson, LL. D. President; For the Degree of Doctor of Physic, on the Sixth Day of May, 1794
Ysentery' is a difeafe to which Phyficians have only Of late years annexed precife and accurate ideas. Every increafed difcharge from the intefiinal canal, of a morbid nature; and particularly. If accompanied with fo'me mixture Of blood, was formerly Confidered by Phy. Ficians as Dyfentery. Hippocrateshlmfelf feems to have confounded the terms Dyfenteria, Diarrhoea and Lienteria, and to have applied them rather to exprefs particular fiages of. The fame complaint, than to have viewed them. As dif tinét and different difeafes.
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