Medical Sketches of the Expedition to Egypt, from India

Name: Medical Sketches of the Expedition to Egypt, from India
Author: McGrigor, James, Sir

McGrigor, James, Sir

Great Britain. Army -- Sanitary affairs; Medicine, Military

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                            MEDICAL SKETCHES
                                 OF THE
                         _EXPEDITION TO EGYPT_,
                               FROM INDIA.

                         BY JAMES M‘GREGOR, A.M.
           Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, of London;
             Surgeon to the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards;
                and lately Superintending Surgeon to the
                          Indian Army in Egypt.

                                 LONDON:
               PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, 32, FLEET-STREET;
                    BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH; AND
                       GILBERT AND HODGES, DUBLIN.
                                  1804.

          _W. Marchant, Printer, 3, Greville-Street, Holborn._

                                   TO

                         SIR LUCAS PEPYS, BART.
                       Physician General, &c. &c.

                       THOMAS KEATE, ESQ. F. R. S.
                        Surgeon General, &c. &c.

                                 AND TO

                          FRANCIS KNIGHT, ESQ.
                 Inspector General of Hospitals, &c. &c.

                 THE MEMBERS OF THE ARMY MEDICAL BOARD,

                             THESE SKETCHES
                 are dedicated, with the utmost respect,
                         by their most obedient
                        and very humble servant,
                             JAMES M‘GREGOR.

CONTENTS.

  INTRODUCTION                                        v-xv

                         PART I.

  _Journal of the Indian Expedition to Egypt_         1-55

                         PART II.

  _Of the Causes of the Diseases which prevailed in
    the Indian Army_                                 56-97

                        PART III.

  _Of the Diseases of the Indian Army in Egypt_         99

             FIRST, THE ENDEMIC DISEASES OF EGYPT.

  _Of the Plague_                                  100-146

  _Of the Ophthalmia of Egypt_                     146-159

  _General Remarks on the Diseases_                160-161

            SECONDLY, OF THE OTHER DISEASES OF
                     THE INDIAN ARMY.

  _Fever_                                          162-170

  _Hepatitis_                                      171-180

  _Dysentery_                                      181-192

  _Pneumonia and Rheumatism_                       193-194

  _Small-Pox_                                      195-197

  _Diarrhœa_                                           198

  _Scurvy_                                             199

  _Syphilis_                                       200-201

  _The Guinea-Worm_                                202-217

  _Ulcers_                                             218

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