_Vide Comment. de Rebus in Hist. Nat. & Medecin. Gestis_, vol. II. par. iv. sect. v. Generally in _August_ and _September_ we have People admitted into _St. George_’s Hospital for the Dysentery; who have certainly not catched the Disorder from eating of Fruit, but from working in the Fields, and being exposed to Causes similar to those which produce the Dysentery in Camps. At the Time the Petechial Fever was frequent at _Paderborn_ in _January_, _February_, and _March_ 1761, the Flux frequently accompanied it; and we had in the Hospitals likewise a Number of old Cases of this Kind, the Remains of the preceding Campaign about _Warbourg_; besides some Men who had relapsed during the Winter, and were sent to us when the Troops marched, upon the Winter-Expedition, into the Country of _Hesse_. In _May_ and _June_, what Fluxes we had at _Osnabruck_, were the remaining old Cases of the Hospitals of _Munster_, _Paderborn_, _Hoxter_, and _Niehms_. Some few recent ones were sent to _Bilifield_ about the End of _June_, and above 300 to _Munster_, in _July_ and _August_. Those sent to _Bremen_, in _November_ and _December_, had continued for some time before they reached us; but a good many of the Soldiers in the Garrison were taken ill of this Disorder, and sent immediately to the Hospital. In the Beginning of _May_ we had but four ill of this Complaint in the Hospital I attended; and there were not above six or seven, among the Sick sent down from the Army, in the Middle of this Month. In _June_ there were but two sent to the Hospital at _Minden_; and not above ten among the Sick sent to _Natzungen_ in the Beginning of _July_; tho’ towards the Middle of this Month they began to be more frequent; and continued to be more so in _August_ and _September_; and in the Hospital at _Osnabruck_ we had not above five or six ill of this Disorder, in _December_ 1762, and in _January_, _February_ and _March_ 1763. The Dysentery commonly begun with Sickness and Gripes, succeeded by a Purging, and attended with more or less Fever. Very soon the Gripes became more severe, attended with a Flatulency in the Bowels, and often with a Tenesmus. The Stools were chiefly composed of Mucus, mixed with Bile, and more or less Blood: tho’ sometimes no Blood could be observed in them; and then the Soldiers used to say they had the White Flux. After eight, ten, or twelve, Days, if the Disorder was not complicated with any other, there remained little or no Fever, unless where some Accident supervened; tho’ in Cases which terminated fatally, towards the latter End came on a Fever of a low malignant Kind, attended with black fetid Stools, Lientery, Hiccup, Stupor, and other bad Symptoms.