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REPORT 



fON'CERNING THE 



DISEASES MOST COMMON AMONG THh 

 TROOPS IN THE WEST INDIES. 



[Extracted from the Annals of Medicine for the Year 1797.] 



The following report * respecting the diseases most com- 

 mon among the troops in the West Indies, their symptoms, 

 causes, and best mode of treatment, drawn up by Dr Wil- 

 liam Wright, physician to the army, and director to the mi- 

 litary hospitals in Barbadoes, contains so much useful infor- 

 mation to the practitioners in warm climates, that we have 

 peculiar pleasure in being able to present it to our readers. 



REPORT. 



The disorders to which the troops in the West Indies arc 

 most liable are fevers and fluxes. 



The fevers are either intermittent, remittent, or continued 

 Besides these, there are typhus or the jail-fever, ship-fever, 

 yellow fever, &c. which are different degrees of the same dis- 

 order. 



Of fluxes there are cholera, diarrhoea, and dysentery, of all 

 of which in order. 



* Annals of Medicine for 1797, p- 34G. 



