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The duties of a regimental surgeon considered : with observations on his general qualifications, and hints relative to a more respectable practice.

Robert Hamilton

Date:: 1787

Credit: The duties of a regimental surgeon considered : with observations on his general qualifications, and hints relative to a more respectable practice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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This variablcnefs of weather, often in the fame day, is fufficient to relax the rrioft ro- buft fibre, and induce debility in the llrongeft habits. % ' ' 1 ; ] , . That this is the caie is evident, from the number of intermittent fevers round this neighbourhood. Of numbers that dwell along the banks of a fmall rivulet that waters this, and feveral ether villages in the courfe of twelve or fourteen miles, fevers of this type are to be found at pre- fen t almoffc in every family. I have feen children under them of fix years of age, and one fo young as two ; nor is this, as I am informed, a rare occurrence. The / typhus has likewife fhowed itfelf in feveral instances of late in this place; all thefe plainly point at debility; for thefe reafons, I have not bled in a fingle cafe, excepting in one, of the many I faw under the pre- fent epidemic ; nor indeed does the ftate of

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