Observations on the diseases which appeared in the army on St. Lucia in 1778 and 1779 ; to which are prefixed remarks ... ; with an appendix containing a short address to military gentleman.

  • Rollo, John, -1809.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Observations on the diseases which appeared in the army on St. Lucia in 1778 and 1779 ; to which are prefixed remarks ... ; with an appendix containing a short address to military gentleman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    no circumftances whatever in a foldier's character fo pernicious. The remedy moft effectual for this purppfe is a i rid, even a fevere difcipline. The f 1 tiers who landed at St. Lucia, in the year 1778, were men accuftomed to fervice and to danger •, they were healthy and active, the whole confbtuting the finefb body of men ever feen in the Weft-In- dies. The circumftances of their land- ing were unfavourable ; with fatigue, rain, and badly cooked victuals, they were intimately acquainted j the retreat of the enemy did not free them from thofe things j it rather ufliered in, and paved the way for a continuance of them. Amidft the variety of caufes of difeafe, however, with which they were encircled, it was cbfervable, thofe regi- menrs which were particularly attentive to ftrictnefs and regularity, were the moft healthy, and loft the feweft men. Although the regiments alluded to have greatly