The medical companion : treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. With a dispensatory and glossary. To which are added, a brief anatomy of the human body; an essay on hygieine [sic] or the art of preserving health and prolonging life; an American materia medica, instructing country gentlemen in the very important knowledge of the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants; also, a concise and impartial history of the capture of Washington and the diseases which sprung from that most deplorable disaster.

  • Ewell, James, 1773-1832.
Date:
1817
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Credit: The medical companion : treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. With a dispensatory and glossary. To which are added, a brief anatomy of the human body; an essay on hygieine [sic] or the art of preserving health and prolonging life; an American materia medica, instructing country gentlemen in the very important knowledge of the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants; also, a concise and impartial history of the capture of Washington and the diseases which sprung from that most deplorable disaster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fraser's corps; and consequently were always the most advanced part of the army. Their situations were often so alert, trirt no person slept out of his clothes. In one of these predicaments, a tent, in which the major and lady Harriet were asleep, suddenly took fire. An orderly serjeant of grenadiers, with great hazard of suffocation, dragged out the first person he caught hold of. It proved to be the major. It happened, that in the same instant, lady Harriet, unknowing what she did, and perhaps not perfectly awake, providentially made her escape, by creeping under the walls of the back part of the tent. The first object she saw, upon the recovery of her senses, was the major on the other side, and in the same instant again in the fire in search of her. The serjeant again saved him, but not without his being very severely burned in his face and different parts of the body. Every thing they had with them in the tent was consumed. This accident happened a little time before the army passed the Hudson River. It neither altered the reso- lution nor the cheerfulness of lady Harriet; and she con- tinued her progress, a partaker of the fatigues of the advanced corps. The next call upon her fortitude was of a different nature, and more distressful, as of longer suspense. On the march of the 13th, the grenadiers be- ing liable to action at every step, she had been directed by the major to follow the route of the artillery and baggage, which was not exposed. At the time the ac- tion began, she found herself near a small uninhabited hut, where she alighted. When the engagement was becoming general and bloody, the surgeons of the hos- pital took possession of the same place, as the most convenient for the first care of the wounded. Thus was this lady in hearing of one continued fire of cannon and musketry for four hours together, with the presumption, from the post of her husband at the head of the Grena- diers, that he was in the most exposed part. She had three female companions, the baroness of Reidesel and the wives of two British officers, major Harnage, and lieutenant Reynell; but in the event, their presence serv- ed little for comfort. Major Harnage was soon brought