An inaugural dissertation on intermittent fevers : submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York, William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president ; for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the sixth day of May, 1794 / by Edmund Ludlow, citizen of the state of New-York.

  • Ludlow, Edmund.
Date:
1794
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on intermittent fevers : submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York, William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president ; for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the sixth day of May, 1794 / by Edmund Ludlow, citizen of the state of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tranfported from his happy career into the bofom of difeafe* and there transformed into a child of mifery, until he returns to mother earth. Thefe confiderations naturally lead the inde- fatigable and accurate obferver of human nature, to an inquiry into the caufes of difeafe, upon which their prevention and cure totally depend. This is the office of the Phyfician, the end of whofe labor is the attainment of means for the relief of the numerous difeafes incident to his fel- low creatures. Intermittent fevers have particu- larly excited the attention of many, with a view of inveftigating the nature and particular operation of miafmata, or marjh effluvia, in the production of its lingular effects. This difeafe, originating from its influence, and frequent in many parts of this country, is well worthy to be known and under- stood, fince few are the happy climes which can boaft of being exempt from its fcourge, and many are the victims who fall a facrifice at its fhrine. B Hiftory