Br. RuJJfs Ohfervations, ^%x 



Result of Observations, i^c. 



1. The principal difeafes were putrid fevers. 

 Men, who came into the hofpitals with pleurifies, 

 rheumatifms, &c. foon loft the types of their 

 original difeafes, and fuffered, or died, with the 

 putrid fever. 



2. This putrid fever was often artificial, pro- 

 duced by the want of fufficient room and clean- 

 linefs. 



3. It always prevailed moft, and with the 

 worft fymptoms, in winter : a free air, which 

 could only be obtained in fummer, always pre- 

 vented or checked it. 



4. Soldiers, billeted in private houfes, efcaped 

 it, and generally recovered fooneft from all their 

 ^ifeafes. 



5. Convalefcents, and drunken foldiers, were 

 moft expofed to putrid fevers. 



6. The remedies that appeared to do moft 

 fervice in this difeafe, were tartar emetic in the 

 beginning, gentle dofes of laxative falts, bark, 

 wine, (two or three bottles a day in many cafes) 

 and fal volatile. 



7. In all thofc cafes where the contagion was 

 received, cold feldom failed to render it adive. 

 Whenever an hofpital w^s removed in winter, 

 one half of the patients generally fickened in 

 (he way, or foon after pheir arrival at the plicc 

 fo which they vyere f?nt. 



8. The 



