hr. Rlijfj'j Ohfefuationh' p^ 



13. Thofe officers, who wore flannel fliirts. 

 Or waiftcoats next to their ikln, in general 

 efcaped fevers, and difeafes of all kinds. 



14. l.ads under tvv^ent)' years of age, were 

 fubject to the greateft number of camp difeafes. 



15. The fouthern troops were more fickly, 

 than the northern or eaftern troops. 



16. The native Americans were more fickly, 

 than the Europeans. 



17. Men above thirty and thirty-five yea'fs 

 of age were the hardieft foldiers in the army. 

 Perhaps this v/as the reafon, why the Europeans 

 were more healthy, than the native Americans j 

 they were more advanced in life. 



18. The troops from Maryland, Virginia, 

 and North Carolina, fickened for the* wani of 

 fait provifions. Their ftrength and fpirits were 

 only to be reftored to them by means of fait bacon, 

 ioncefaw a private in a Virginia regiment throw 

 away his ration of choice frefli beef, and give 

 feven fiiillings and fix- pence fpecie for a pound 

 of fait meat. 



19. Mod of the fufferlngs, and mortality in 

 our hofpitals, were occafioned not fo much by 

 aftual want or fcarcity of any thing, as by the 

 ignorance, negligence, &c. in providing necef- 

 faries for them. After the purvey wg, and ilire'T- 

 ing departments were feparated (agreeably to the 

 advice of Dr. Monro) in the year 1778,' very 

 few of the American army died in our hofpitals. 



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