Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 edition. Excerpt: ... A DISSERTATION ON DYSENTERY, WHICH OBTAINED THE BOYLSTON PRIZE MEDAL FOR 1806. To Ward Nicholas Botlston, Esq. SlE, The first honours of your benevolent institution for the pro motion of medicine, and the sciences connected with the healing art, were conferred in 1803. The fortunate dissertation on Cholera Infantum was impressed with a token of your app> nation, by permitting its author to dedicate it to yourself. This dissertation on dysentery is so intimately connected with the former, that the author was induced to become a competitor for the prize, which was adjudged him in 1806. Various circurastances have conspired to prevent its publication until now. Among the most potent was, that in reviewing the dissertation, it was found to embrace no new principle in theory, nor improvement in practice. A determination was adopted, not to expose it to the eye of the world. But, since the adjudication was publicly announced, repeated applications have been made by friends for a copy, excited probably more by curiosity than an expectation of acquiring any new ideas on the subject. To gratify a curiosity thus excited is one reason now offered, why the author assents to its appearance in print. If the dissertation has any claims to merit, it -nil! appear as comprising id a conrpendious form, the most approved practice in the United States. Diseases of the bowels are among the most formidable disorders to which armies in the tented field are exposed; produced by hardships, bad provisions, insalubrious climates and unhealthy positions. As these, on the northern frontiers, appeared under forms different from those in domestic practice; the additional observations respecting the disease among soldiers will not be unacceptable. In...
