An inaugural dissertation on the unity of disease, as opposed to nosology : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the thirty-first of May 1800, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Alexander May, of Pennsylvania.

  • May, Alexander.
Date:
1800
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the unity of disease, as opposed to nosology : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the thirty-first of May 1800, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Alexander May, of Pennsylvania. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bilious fever and pleurify, have different remote caufes; but they have fymptoms exactly fimilar, and are both cured by depletion, which proves that they are the fame difeafe, for even Dr. Cullen admit that diforders, which are cured altogether by the fame remedies, are of the fame nature. The fever fucceeding a broken bone, furgical operations, as lithotomy, amputation and trepan- ning, has the fame fymptoms as pleurify and bilious fever, and is cured by the fame remedies. The remote caufe of fmall-pox, though different from any other, produces the fame fymptoms that occur from other remote caufes. The fmall-pox and meafles, are cured by the fame means as pe- npneumony, or any other fthenic difeafe, fays Brown. And diforders which are cured altoge- ther by the fame remedies, are of the fame nature,'* fays Cullen. In the prefent month, a middle aged man, of a robufl habit, was taken ill, with every fymptom of a highly malignant fever, at Chefter in this ftate ; he had drunken fpirits freely through the day ; was bled a quart in the evening,—purged; bled next morning, purged again. The remote caufe was un- known, till the fmall-pox made their appearance. Three days afterwards, he walked out, and complain- ed only of pain from the eruption. In the fame way, phyficians often prevent death, from the fmall-pox, degrees below o; and the mixture felt like coals of fire. This experiment was never performed before in America.