A view of the diseases of the army in Great Britain, America, the West Indies, and on board of king's ships and transports, from the beginning of the late war to the present time : together with monthly and annual returns of the sick and some account of the method in which they were treated in the Twenty-ninth Regiment, and the Third Battalion of the Sixtieth Regiment / by Thomas Dickson Reide.

  • Reide, Thomas Dickson
Date:
1793
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Credit: A view of the diseases of the army in Great Britain, America, the West Indies, and on board of king's ships and transports, from the beginning of the late war to the present time : together with monthly and annual returns of the sick and some account of the method in which they were treated in the Twenty-ninth Regiment, and the Third Battalion of the Sixtieth Regiment / by Thomas Dickson Reide. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I ttb OF THE REMITTING FEVER. iC of Minorca, while Cleghorn was there, u and the one which occurred on board of “ the Weafel (or even the Rainbow), on the u coaft of Africa, in the rainy rfeafon, that u they differ only in a very few immaterial “ circumftances : and I am convinced, from a my own obfervation on the difeafes which “ occur in the Weft Indies, and at Penfacola, u and likewife from confulting moft of the “ authors who have wrote upon difeafes of u hot climates, that thofe difeafes are effen- “ tially the fame in all of them, how widely “ foever they may apparently differ amongft “ the patients, from their peculiar habits iC and externa] circumftances : nay, not any “ two cafes of all my patients, either in the “ fever or flux, were in every refped alike. “ It can hardly be expeded, then, that one “ fever on board of a fhip in the Ganges, u and another fever on board of a fhip in u the river Gambia, in any feafon of the iC year fliould be exadly fimilar, though (6 the fever in both the fhips is of the fame w genusy and will in like manner be cured “ by