Medical Sketches of the Expedition to Egypt, from IndiaMcGrigor, James, Sir
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Medical Sketches of the Expedition to Egypt, from India
McGrigor, James, Sir
Great Britain. Army -- Sanitary affairs; Medicine, Military
On the 6th, a Jewess dropped down dead in the streets of the city, and
it was discovered that she had been ill for four days of the plague. Her
husband, who concealed it from the Board of Health, was bastinadoed; and
afterwards was sent, with his whole family, into quarantine. On the same
evening an Arab’s family reported that one of them was ill of the plague.
The person affected was sent to the pest-side, and the rest of the family
to the observation-ground, of the lazaretto.
On the 7th, Mr Dyson, who on the 4th went to Aboukir to relieve Mr
O’Farrel, discovered bubo and symptoms of the plague in himself.
On the 10th, a serjeant of the 61st, who had had the disease last month,
and who, after recovering, officiated as in-steward of the pest-house in
Alexandria, was again attacked with the plague.
On the 11th Mr Angle died, being the fourteenth day of his disease. He,
three weeks before, went to assist Dr Buchan in the lazaretto.
On the 14th, symptoms of the disease were first discovered on Mr Moss
in the lazaretto. Of the Jew family sent to the observation-ground on
the 6th, which amounted to seven persons, two were sent to-day to the
pest-side.
On the 15th the husband of the jewess died in an observation-tent, having
glandular swellings, which were not discovered till after his death.
He did not appear to be ill. Mr Cloran was accustomed, once a day or
oftener, to examine those under observation, but nothing was discovered
to ail this man.
On the 16th, he discovered some symptoms of the disease in another of the
same family, and sent him in to Dr Buchan.
On the 17th, a deserter from the 61st regiment, sent to the regimental
guard-house, where he was discovered to have the plague, was sent to
the lazaretto, and the guard, amounting to nineteen persons, into the
observation-ground of the lazaretto. This man confessed that he had slept
one night near the pest-house at Aboukir. On the 19th Mr Moss died. On
the 24th the plague was discovered in another Jew family. The plague of
the Indian army, during the month, was as follows, viz.
Assistant-surgeons 4
61st regiment 4
80th ditto 1
7th Bombay ditto 5
Departments 12
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Total 26
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On the whole, it was a pleasing circumstance to see so little of the
disease among the native corps, as, when it did occur, it proved so much
more fatal to them. From my correspondence with different gentlemen in
the pest-houses it appears, that, during the month, bubo was not so
constant a symptom, and that carbuncles were now frequent.
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