S12 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIOMS 



little red fpots, or fome flight marks of 

 inflammation, in one or two. 



As the appearance of the inteftines 

 of all thofe I have feen, who died of 

 old dyfenteries here in London, corre- 

 fponded lo exactly with what I had obfer- 

 ved in Germany. I cannot help believing 

 that this is the mod common ftate ia 

 which the inteftines are to be found ; 

 though particular circumflances and 

 ^tuationa may make a difference in 

 the progrefs of the difeafe, and of the 

 parts it may affedt: And I fufped, that 

 the fmall tubercles, or little excrefcences 

 refembling flat unripe fmall pox, which 

 were obferved on the inner furface of the 

 redum and the colon, by Sir John Pringle 

 andDr Baker,in the year 176 ;:,were appear- 

 ances peculiar to the dyfentery which was 

 epidemic that feafon, and not the com- 

 mon flate in which the inteftines are to 

 be found in thofe who die of old dyfen-^ 

 teries. 



From the account I have given of the 

 condition xxi which the bowels are gene- 

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