History of the Walcheren remittent, commencing with its advanced state, when most dangerous & destructive to the soldiery : and concluding with its very favourable termination ... Also the sequels, anaemia, acholia, Aegytian opthalmia &c. &c. elucidated by dissections / by Thomas Wright.

  • Wright, Thomas, active 1811.
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1811
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Credit: History of the Walcheren remittent, commencing with its advanced state, when most dangerous & destructive to the soldiery : and concluding with its very favourable termination ... Also the sequels, anaemia, acholia, Aegytian opthalmia &c. &c. elucidated by dissections / by Thomas Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which I profess to alleviate, arc all known to you ; many of them you have personaly endured, and safely can you assert, that of the chances of death hy war, that in the Field is what the Patriot Soldier feels to be least of all; this you have escaped, and may the Laurel of Peace lono- flourish on that brow where War has placed it; for those precious tears which early bedewed your manly cheek for your Brother's fall in battle,''^ were a pious tribute paid to Heaven, and which purchased this immunity^ To men who ham not suffered—to men who have not bled—light is the value paid for wealth and station;, these men cannot appreciate the worth of practical remarks, drawn from such dangerous sources of experience; but you, my Lord, know how to appreciate them; to you my Dedication is no idle sound, nor the relief of your suffering fellow-creatures an ostentatious effort. * He was so desperately wounded in Virginia, that hi§ thigh was amputated on bOard the Hospital Ship, where the Author had the melancholy task of mitigating his almost su- perfluous sufferings, since thus mutilated, his youthfuLI career was protracted to a short span.