Medical suggestions for the treatment of dysentery of intermittent and remittent fevers, as generally prevalent at certain seasons among troops in the field / by Edmund Sigismond Somers, M.D.

  • Somers, Edmund Sigismund, approximately 1759-1824.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Medical suggestions for the treatment of dysentery of intermittent and remittent fevers, as generally prevalent at certain seasons among troops in the field / by Edmund Sigismond Somers, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    General of the Army Medical Depart- ment, who with his well known zeal for the good of His Majesty's Service, recommended the adoption of the Discovery throughout the respective Stations, and wheresoever employed, it was almost as uniformly rewarded with decided success. The following Suggestions are com- mitted to the Press for the Purpose of giving the fullest publicity to the salutary results of a Practice much bolder and more decisive than had heretofore been ventured upon, in the treatment of a Disease, that pretty generally had triumphed over the ex- ertions of Physic, and has been fre- quently instrumental, not less fatally than the destroying Sword its>elf, in annihilating the efficient force of Armies in the Field.