Medical History of H. M. \5th Hussars. 



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Tables of causes, or assigned causes, of 269 acute Cases admitted into the 

 Hospital of Her Majesty's 1 5th Hussars, from 1st April 1844 to 3\st 

 March 1845. — (Continued.) 



No. and Diseases. 



Causes or supposed exciting causes. 



Diseases of lungs, 45 To cold caught by exposure to night air, 



,, by lying on cold ground, .. 



,, but cannot tell how, 



,, by getting wet returning from privy, 



,, after exposure to the sun, .. 



Intemperance, 



Know no cause, .. 



Cholera, 11 



Colica, 25. 



To cold caught by doors and windows being left 



open, 

 To eating cabbage for dinner, .. . „ .. 



Know no cause, .. .. .. 



Intemperance, .. 



To eating salad and cabbage, »,. .. *. 



,, potatoes, .. 



Know no cause, ., .. 



To cold caught by exposure to wet and damp on 

 the march, .. .. 



,, on line guard, .. 



Intemperance, .. .. .. .. 



To cold caught but cannot tell how, 



Delerium Trem., 2, To intemperance, 



Grand Total, 



15 



11 



25 

 2 



I 269 



Venereal Disease* 



Syphilis has decreased in a marked manner. This may have 

 arisen from two causes : first, the women either getting them- 

 selves cured, or those affected with the worst forms dying, 

 or the men avoiding those from whom they had previously 

 suffered ; second, from the disease itself partaking of the 

 general healthiness of the past year, and from the men's im- 

 proved habit of body, since it is well known that only certain 

 habits and constitutions are subject to the worst form of ve- 

 nereal disease. 



