Medical sketches of the expedition to Egypt, from India / by James M'Gregor.

Date:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical sketches of the expedition to Egypt, from India / by James M'Gregor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    on the continent of Europe, or in tropi- cal climates. It will be observed, that the diseases which occurred in the Indian army were but few; and, except on the plague, I detain the reader but a short time on this part of my subject. A long descrip- tion of the symptoms, or of the history, of dysentery, diarrhaea, hepatitis, or oph- thalmia, appeared to me superfluous; when, besides the very clear and perfect nosological account of the illustrious Cullen, we have many complete histories of these diseases, in books which are in the hands of every person, x Einally: in justice to myself, and in extenuation of errors in these Sketches, I must mention, that, when they were pre- paring for the press, I laboured under many and very considerable disadvan- tages. I was on duty in a remote corner of the kingdom, and have been, neces- sarily from the same reason, at a distance