SI 6 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



A-RT. XXV. 



Concerning the State of the Intejiines in old 

 Dyfenteries^ by Dr D o n a l d M o n R o, 

 Phyftcian to the Army^ and to St George's 

 Hofpitdl at London *. 



MOST authors who have lately wrote 

 on the dyfentery have alledged, 

 that the infide of the guts is commonly 

 found, after death, without the leaft ap- 

 pearance of erofion or ulcer j and they 

 feem to think that the former pradition- 

 ers laboured under a miftake, when they 

 fuppofed that the inteftines were ulcera- 

 ted or eroded : And indeed, from what 

 had been faid about the time I publifh- 

 ed my Account of the Difeafes ivhich ivere 

 mojl frequent in the militar-y Hofpitalsin 

 Germany during the late war, 1 was then 



afraid 

 * Read 1770. 



