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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    — [ 50 ] CHAPTER V. Of the Dyfentery. evalent, both in camp and garrifon. This difeafe is fo intimately conne&ed with the preceding, that fome late writers expreffes it, “ the fever of the feafon turned inwards upon the inteftines It arifes from the fame caufes, and, ac- cording to my late method of treating it, it is cured in the fame manner, and with fimi- lar fuccefs. During our encampment at Fort St, thirty to forty men ill of this difeafe. fuppofe it is the fame; or, as Sydenham John, in September and Odtober 1776, the dally reports prefented, in general, from * Syclenhami Opera, p> 226. Leipf. 169^