TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Dehydration/Rehydration A1 - Iserson, Kenneth V. PY - 2016 T2 - Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, 2e 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 - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/05 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1124427215 ER -