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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    [ *5» ] CHAPTER V], Of the TOyfentery. #■ I HAVE, in the former part of this work, faid that the dyfentery is fo intimately connected with the remitting fever, that I confider it as the fame difeafe *. From the moft attentive obfervation of thofe cafes which were under my care in the Weft Indies, I am now convinced it is effentially of the lame genus, but of a more malignant fpecies. In many cafes I could not determine, In the beginning, whether the difeafe would be a remittent or a dyfentery; but as I treated them both in the fame manner, it made little difference ; for the event, particularly in the dyfentery, turned out favourable. Hippocrates, who has defcribed the re- mitting fever in a manner that leaves no room for the moderns to improve upon it, has fcarcely mentioned the dyfentery but as a fymptom attending fome cafes of fever. * Part i. chap. v. page 50. Some 1