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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    \ [ 76 ] I ' , _ CHAPTER XIII. Of the Rheumatfm. i THIS difeafe, as I have formerly men- tioned, feems to be of a different fpe^ cies from thofe attended with inflammation % * * * J or putridity, but partaking of both : expe- rience muft, however, determine how far it is fo. From our men being much employed working in the woods, expofed to the vicif- iitudes of the weather in boats, or in fcout- ing parties, many were feized with acute rheumatifm. A few old foldiers, who had \ been in America before, were fubjed to attacks of the chronic kind. v From the materials in my pofleflion, it appears that the rheumatifm was moft pre- * • valent in the years 1780, 1, 2, and 3; during which period ninety-fix cafes oc* curred; though in the two preceding years ten are only recorded.