A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies ; illustrated by cases and appearances on dissection : to which are added, practical treatises on scorbutic dysentery, on the morbus chylopoieticus and gastrodynia a fame ; with some facts and observations relative to scurvy in general, and a short account of the scorbutic disease that appeared at the Penitentiary, Millbank, Westminster / By R.W. Bampfield, Esq. Surgeon.

  • Bampfield, R. W. (Robert William), -1827.
Date:
1823
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Credit: A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies ; illustrated by cases and appearances on dissection : to which are added, practical treatises on scorbutic dysentery, on the morbus chylopoieticus and gastrodynia a fame ; with some facts and observations relative to scurvy in general, and a short account of the scorbutic disease that appeared at the Penitentiary, Millbank, Westminster / By R.W. Bampfield, Esq. Surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE RIGHT HONORABLE GEORGE BYNG, VISCOUNT TORRINGTON, AND A BARONET, Rear Admiral of the Red, D.C.L. S(c. §c. As a tribute of respect, due to the benevolence, zeal, and ability, which your Lordship displayed, in your earnest efforts to preserve the lives oj those confided to your command, and in your judicious, and, at last, eminently successful ar- rangements, to prevent the scorbutic form of disease treated of in this volume from prevailing among them ; as a sense of obligation for the condescension and humane feeling with which you received and adopted every suggestion for their welfare; and as a grateful offering, for some personal acts of friendship conferred, during ten years associated services; the following Treatises are respectfully inscribed, and appropriately de- dicated, by His obliged, humble servant. The AUTHOR. 37, Bedford Street, Covenl Garden, Sept. 30tli, 1823.