British Army's contribution to tropical medicine
Jonathan Blair Thomas Herron, James Alexander Thomas Dunbar
Clinical Medicne, October 1, 2018 vol. 18 no. 5 380-383
"The 19th century was a time of colonial expansion and as a consequence the prevalence of tropical disease among Europeans was rife. During the Napoleonic Wars, only some 13% of the 240,000 deaths were trauma related. A notorious example was the Walcheren Campaign of 1809 in the Netherlands which involved 40,000 British troops. This area was particularly known for undifferentiated febrile illness and had been previously described by John Pringle. Of the 8,000 soldiers who were infected, over 4,000 perished and just 100 of these were battle casualties...."