A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies : ... to which is added, a practical treatise on scorbutic dysentery, with some facts and observations relative to scurvy / by R.W. Bampfield.

  • Bampfield, R. W. (Robert William), -1827.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies : ... to which is added, a practical treatise on scorbutic dysentery, with some facts and observations relative to scurvy / by R.W. Bampfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The motives^ that roused the author to under- take an investigation of the formidable and destructive diseases treated of in the following pages, were, to avert a miserable dissolution from those entrusted to his charge; to protect them from these scourges of our fleets and armies, by acquiring a more successful practice; and to relieve the mental anxieties their mortality oc- casioned. He tried the practice of the learned lecturers and authors on tropical dysentery, more espe- cially of the East Indies, which was the prin- cipal theatre of his professional experience; yet, while every other acute disease of intertropical regions submitted to the control of a decisive practice and unwearied attention, this alone too often defied his knowledge, baffled his skill, eluded his vigilance, mocked his hopes, and either quickly precipitated his patients to the