Medical Sketches of the Expedition to Egypt, from India

by Sir James McGrigor

ULCERS.

In India, we remarked that ulcers, particularly of the legs, were very rarely seen; and that many men in the 88th regiment, who in Europe were always in hospitals with them, were in India quite free from them. In Egypt, they began to re-appear. In the course of six weeks after the army came to Alexandria, there appeared seventy on the general return of the army; and they continued afterwards on the increase.