RT Book, Section A1 Iserson, Kenneth V. SR Print(0) ID 1124427215 T1 Dehydration/Rehydration T2 Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, 2e YR 2016 FD 2016 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071847629 LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1124427215 RD 2024/10/05 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