Dysentery
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 10 anchored passages
dysentery · chronic lientery
in the texts
Aphorisms
A named intestinal disease (bloody flux) recurring across aphorisms with varied prognoses
When persons having large spleens are seized with dysentery, and if the dysentery pass into a chronic state, either dropsy or lientery supervenes, and they die.
In enlargement of the spleen, it is a good symptom when dysentery comes on.
In cases of chronic lientery, acid eructations supervening when there were none previously, is a good symptom.
De diaeta acutorum
An intestinal bleeding/flux disorder whose resolution and complications are tracked, with a specific herbal remedy given.
Dysentery, when it has ceased, will make an abscess or some swelling, unless it pass off into fevers, or sweats and thick white urine appear, or it fix itself into tertian fevers, or into a varix, or into a testicle, or into the legs, or a pain settle into the hips.
For dysentery: