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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    the names are in my possession to identify the individuals.—To you it belongs to repeat, to multiply, to universalize them, by giving up the convalescents of Walcheren to the tender solicitudes of their friends and relations. I am fully aware, however, that the release of thousands of men who will /jo«- sibli/ recover without this measure, is at this juncture inexpedient, if not imprac- ticable ; I submit, though myself a suf- ferer, to the state necessity ; but there are palliative measures to which no objection can reasonably be offered.—Let these be adof)ted : let the convalescents universaly be shipped for some temperate and steudy climate, where the vicissitudes and intemperances of weather are not known or felt, as Malta; but above all Madeira, where fruits and other restora- tives abound, and which, while they invite appetite, do not surfeit;—let physicians, in- structed by acquaintance with the diseases which are yet to ensue in the convalescent .state accompany them;—let them relieve