Outlines of the chief camp diseases of the United States armies as observed during the present war : a practical contribution to military medicine / by Joseph Janvier Woodward.

  • Woodward, Joseph Janvier, 1833-1884.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Outlines of the chief camp diseases of the United States armies as observed during the present war : a practical contribution to military medicine / by Joseph Janvier Woodward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Starvation. Scurvy. Purpura. Delirium tremens. Inebriation. Chronic alcoholism. Other diseases of this order. The term dietic diseases—from diaira, way of life, diet—signifies simply diseases arising from faults of food and drink. Of the affections above enumerated, scurvy, in its various degrees as an independent affec- tion, and as a tendency complicating other diseases, is the only one which will occupy our attention in this work. Affections arising from the abuse of the alcoholic liquors may be dismissed with the general remark that they were comparatively rare, and that they presented no peculiarities in their phenomena. But 1634 cases of these latter affections, of which G5G were delirium tremens, are recorded in the re- ports above alluded to as representing an annual mean strength of 281,177 men. To the foregoing remarks a few general considera- tions on the proportionate amount of sickness and mortality during the present war may be conveniently appended. An analysis of the statistics of the sickness and mortality of the United States army for the year ending June 30th, 1862, shows that while the proportionate number taken sick has not very greatly increased, the mortality rate is double that of the old regular army, in time of peace, during eighteen previous years. According to the published statistics of Assistant