The Medical Department, U. S. Army (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Medical Department, U. S. ArmyBesides the hospital at Cambridge, one was established at Ticonderoga' for General Schuyler's command and, in 1776, a third at Williamsburg, Va. The position of surgeon at this time was no sinecure, for small-pox, typhus and typhoid fevers, diarrhoea and dysentery, were rife in the Continental armies. The army at Cambridge in September, 1775, consisted of men, of whom 2817, or per cent were sick, present or absent, and in December the number taken sick weekly was from 675 to 1500, one-third of whom had to be sent to the small-pox hospitals.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.