TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 11. Dehydration/Rehydration A1 - Iserson, Kenneth V. Y1 - 2012 N1 - T2 - Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments AB - Sir William MacGregor, MD, at the end of his term as Papua New Guinea's colonial governor, wrote: "Dysentery causes more deaths than any other disease in tropical countries. No other malady is so universally distributed and of such constant occurrence … [Dysentery has become] the chief agent in the rapid depopulation of the Pacific."1 SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57372079 ER -