Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - Georgia Regents University
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - Georgia Regents University
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - Georgia Regents University
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SOUTHERNefeal^ ^Digital loKnialAUGUSTA, GA,Vol. XXL] MARCH, 18G7. [No- 4ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.The <strong>Medical</strong> Statistics of the Confederate Slates MilitaryHospitals. By ¥m. H. Doughty, M.D., Augusta, Ga.,Professor of Materia Medica in the <strong>Medical</strong> College of<strong>Georgia</strong>.The October number of this journal contains an interesting<strong>and</strong> instructivearticle from Professor Jones uponthe "Relations of Pneumonia <strong>and</strong> Malarial Fevers,"which incorporated also a "table illustrating the rate ofmortality in pneumonia under different modes of treatment,prepared from the hospital <strong>and</strong> field reports of theConfederate army of America, <strong>and</strong> also from the publishedstatistics of various European hospitals <strong>and</strong>armies."The destruction of the voluminous records of the<strong>Medical</strong> department at the fall of Richmond has devolvedupon individual officers the duty ot publishing suchportions as may yet remain in their possession, in orderto supply the loss as far as possible. In the table advertedto above, Professor Jones has given to the professiona mass of statistics, the value of which will be35
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