An essay on ophthalmia : containing a history of that disease, as it appeared in the First Battalion of the 89th Regiment, with some observations on its causes and symptoms, also the medical treatment, &c. which have been crowned with unparalleled success : in a letter to James M'Gregor, M.D., Deputy Inspector of Army Hospitals / by Henry Reid.

  • Reid, Henry.
Date:
1806
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Credit: An essay on ophthalmia : containing a history of that disease, as it appeared in the First Battalion of the 89th Regiment, with some observations on its causes and symptoms, also the medical treatment, &c. which have been crowned with unparalleled success : in a letter to James M'Gregor, M.D., Deputy Inspector of Army Hospitals / by Henry Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    time we had a great number violently affected with Ophthalmia; but before the month of May M'e had discharged such men as had sus- tained any injury of the sight; and I find, upon adverting to my books on this occasion, we had two, three, and four cases of that disease, during some of the months, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, ,and I805j and in the remaining months, in the above years, we had no such disease in the regiment. We received orders to embark, at Cork, for the West Indies, in July, 1805 ; when we hap- pened to have two patients affected w'ith the disease, who were received into the general Hospital there. The regiment continued a fortnight on board ship, and was then disem- barked ; during wdiich time we had not a single instance of the smallest appearance of the disease. It embarked again on the 29th of October, remained on board ship until the month of January, when we were disembarked in Germany; from which place we returned to England in February, 180&. Now, at this