542, Dr. BEARDSLEY Remerks 
nr. Remarks on the Eefeéts of fagnant dir, By EBENEZER 
“BEARDSLEY; Surgeon of the 22d Regiment of tbe Affiche 
Arm , in the Campaign of 1776. o ic 
BOUT the beginning of April, he! the cron: 
AO M army, under the command of his Excellency | General . 
JFafbington, matched from  Boffom for New- York, at which. 
place they arrived near themiddle of the month. “The fick and. 
‘invalids having been left behind, the whole army were in perfea 
healthy: "They took up their quarters in the barracks and houfes 
of the citizens, till about the firft of May, when they all went 
into tents, except the 22d regiment, under the command of. 
Colonel Sarl JFyllys, who, for want of. tents, continued in 
their quarters in Swrth-Street. "This regiment was very heal- | 
thy: until about the middle of the month, when upwards of one . 
"hundred of the men were taken down with the dyfentery in_ 
the fpace of ‘one week. © Such a fadden invafion of this formi- * 
-dable difeafe alarmed’ me greatly. As I found upon enquiry ‘that, a 
there /was-not a fingle dyfenteric patient befides, in the whole. 
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„army; I. concluded that the difeafe arofe from fome càufe F pecu- i 
liar t0 the city + but after a careful enquiry, I could not Tnd 
that there was 2 fiagle inhabitant in the wbole city that was | 
fick, with the-diftemper.:« Thofe who lived in’ the fame (tret, - 
and.many of them in the fame houfes with us, were entirely 
free from this, or indeed: any ‘other difeafe. For feveral days 
I was much perplexed, and greatly at a lofs as to the caule. 
-Ati length .Lobferved. that not only the citizens with whom 
"we lived were free: from the difeafe, but that fome whole — 
companies of the fame regiment had nothing of it. This led 
me to confider, minutely the fituation and. circumftances 
xf thofe who were fick; all of whom, I found, lived either in 
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