esmus. The Stools were chiefly composed of Mucus,
mixed with Bile, and more or less Blood: tho' sometimes no Blood could
be observed in them; and then the Soldiers used to say they had the
White Flux.

After eight, ten, or twelve, Days, if the Disorder was not complicated
with any other, there remained little or no Fever, unless where some
Accident supervened; tho' in Cases which terminated fatally, towards
the latter End came on a Fever of a low malignant Kind, attended with
black fetid Stools, Lientery, Hiccup, Stupor, and other bad Symptoms.

It often happened, that, after the Dysentery had continued for some
Time, the Sick complained for a Day or two of severe Gripes; and then
discharged along with the Stools little Pieces of hardened Excrements;
at other Times, tho' more rarely, little Pieces of white Stuff like
Tallow or Suet: Frequently small Filaments, and little Pieces of
Membranes, were found floating in the Stools; and it was very common
for the Sick to vomit up Worms of the round Kind, or discharge them by
Stool[30].

[30] Most Authors, who treat of the Dysentery, mention this
Symptom of Worms; and Dr. _Huxham_ tells us, that, in some
Seasons, he has seen round Worms in the Stools of most of the
Dysenteric Patients. _De Aere_, vol. II. p. 98.

In the Course of the Disorder, the Men often complained of a violent
Pain of the Rectum, near the Fundament, which was most excruciating
when they went to Stool; it continued for some Days, sometimes for a
Week or more; and then they passed more or less of a Yellow Pus with
their Excrements, and the violent Pain ceased. Mr. _A. Tough_, one of
the Apothecaries to the Military Hospital in _Germany_, was the first
who told me that I should find Pus mixed with the Stools: on my
mentioning a Case of this Kind, which had been relieved by Bleeding,
and Clysters often repeated; he told me he had observed it frequently
at _Gibraltar_; and was at a Loss to understand the Nature of the
Symptom, till he observed the Matter in the Stools; which at once
shewed him that it had been originally an acute Inflammation of the
Part, and pointed out to him the proper Method of Cure.

Oftentimes the Bilious and Malignant Fevers terminated in the
Dysentery; or were accompanied with it, when it might be looked upon
as a Symptom of these Fevers.

The Appearances we found after Death in the Bodies of some Patients,
who died of old Fluxes at _Bremen_, were: In all of them t