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don. Very few of our phyiicians have feen this difor- 
der as it has appeared of late. You mention it as fre- 
quent at Plymouth in the year 1743, in your treatife 
de Mortis epidemicis Vol. I. page 90. As you then 
obferved, many of the children which fell under my 
care voided the vermes teretes. In the courfe of my 
practice I found many of your obfervations exceed- 
ingly well founded, and collected from them very 
ufeful remarks. Dr. Sydenham has left us an ad- 
mirable hi dory of this difeafe, as it appeared at Lon- 
don in the year 1669, and the three fubfequent years. 
To this work, as well as to what you have given us 
upon this fubjedt, 1 am very much obliged. 
As the dyfentery is mod frequently an autumnal 
difeafe, and as 1 have not feen any perfon afflidted 
with it this fortnight pad, I datter myfelf, that the 
late cold and frody weather has put a ftop to its pro- 
grefs. 
This diforder, though very general, mod fre- 
quently attacked weak perfons, and thofe recovering 
from other difeafes, women during their lying in, and 
children. 
The dyfentery in fome was attended with a fever, in 
a high degree inflammatory ; in others it was without 
any fever. When it was attended with a fever, bleed- 
ing and gentle evacuations by dool with liberal di- 
lution did great fervice. When there was no fever, 
as well as in thofe whofe fever had been relieved by 
the methods before mentioned, if the irritating pain 
in the bowels, bloody or mucous difcharges with the 
tenefmus continued, after the excrementitious Sordes 
had been carried off, nothing relieved more than 
drinking large quantifies of very fmall mutton broth, 
without 
