Trachoma, a Chapter in Military Medicine
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return, they disseminated, not only in the garrison towns in which they were quartered, but also through the civil population of their native countries. The name commonly applied to it at the time, the " Egyptian Ophthalmia," sufficiently indicates its origin. Napoleon landed in Egypt on July 1st, 1798, with an army of 35,000 men. Within three weeks his troops were attacked by foes more deadly and more obstinate than those they had already faced and overthrown on the battlefield. Plague, dysentery, scurvy and sun-stroke accounted for
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