Author: WILSON (Andrew)
Title: An Essay on the Autumnal Dysentery.
Description: London: Printed for Hooper and Davis, 1777. Second edition, small 8vo, [2], xviii, 82, [2]pp., recent calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. First published in 1761, this second revised edition with an introduction and notes, containing occasional remarks on Dr. Zimmerman, &c. on the same subject. The essay delves into the causes, symptoms, and treatments of autumnal dysentery, a condition that was particularly prevalent in Newcastle and Tyneside during the eighteenth-century.

Keywords: MEDICINE DYSENTERY NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE TYNESIDE