Three dissertations on Boylston prize questions for the years 1806 and 1807 / By George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D. Being the dissertations to which the Boylston prize medals were adjudged. To which is prefixed the public account of their adjudication.

  • Shattuck, George Cheyne, 1783-1854.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Three dissertations on Boylston prize questions for the years 1806 and 1807 / By George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D. Being the dissertations to which the Boylston prize medals were adjudged. To which is prefixed the public account of their adjudication. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Dr. Thomas Herberdcn and Dr. Joseph Adams, both of whom were practitioners of medicine some length of time upon the island of Madeira, have des- cribed, with more accuracy than any other authors whom I have had the opportunity of perusing, the modem cutaneous diseases of warm climates- But they have by no means exhausted their subject; for their reader, dissatisfied with their imperfect ac- counts of yaws and of elephantiasis, cannot with- hold the following inquiries ; answers to which are essential to a clear understanding of their nature and cure. Is yaws an eruptive fever, that runs a certain determinate period, after which it invariably de- clines, until it is cured by the powers of the consti- tution, and what is the length of that period ? How Jar is the disease contagious, and who are most ex- posed to its attack ? What are the palliatives, which have been proved by experience to be most effec- tual in obviating its violence, until it shall have at- tained its height and completed its course ? Is the constitution ever susceptible to the action of its poi- son a second time ? What proportion are destroyed by it, in relation to the number acred and to those, who are incurable•> but eventually fall victims to other diseases ? Does elephantiasis originate from obstructed perspiration in the parts diseased, or from obstruc-