Medicine and the American Revolution: how diseases and their treatments affected the colonial army
A retired physician offers a unique history of the American Revolution, pointing out that nearly nine times as many people died from disease than from fighting. He traces such diseases as dysentery, scurvy, typhus, and smallpox to poor diet, inadequate sanitation, and sometimes a lack of basic medic...
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Jefferson, NC [u.a.]
McFarland
1998
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| Zusammenfassung: | A retired physician offers a unique history of the American Revolution, pointing out that nearly nine times as many people died from disease than from fighting. He traces such diseases as dysentery, scurvy, typhus, and smallpox to poor diet, inadequate sanitation, and sometimes a lack of basic medical care. He also includes medical histories of Washington and King George III. |
| Beschreibung: | VII, 278 S. |
| ISBN: | 0786403381 |
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Acknowledgments vi
Preface 1
1. Army Medicine 3
2. Leaders of the Medical Department 51
3. Smallpox and the Canadian Invasion 81
4. Disease and Medical Care in the Navy 117
5. Syphilis and the Loss of New York 153
6. Dysentery and the Prisoners of War 165
7. Typhus and the Army Hospitals 183
8. Valley Forge and Scabies 193
9. Malaria and the Southern Campaign 205
Appendix: The Health of George Washington and
King George III 219
Notes 249
Bibliography 265
Index 273
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