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Excerpt from A Sketch of the History and Cure of Febrile Diseases, Vol. 1 of 2: More Particularly as They Appear in the West-Indies Among the Soldiers of the British Army
The Author may be allowed to consider himself a medical veteran. He is on the verge of seventy, and has spent a large por tion of his time in real service, much of it in foreign countries. His actual experience has been considerable; his means of profiting by the experience of others have been compara tively His finances, which were small originally, failed almost before his profes sioual studies were begun. One course of lectures on anatomy and surgery, and one course on the practice of medicme, at the university of Edinburgh, comprehend the sum of the instruction which he drew from public seminaries of medical learning. As'he had not the means of opening the halls of acere dited teachers, or of obtaining admission into hospitals for lessons on the cure of disease, he was compelled by his necessities to look') for other guides. He laboured for several years to find them; he laboured with ardpur, but under disadvantages: he must leave it to others to judge whether or not he has la boured in vain.
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