Johnson, Charles Beneulyn

The distinction as to whether one was treating a case of simple diarrhea or dysentery can easily be exaggerated. Charles Beneulyn Johnson noted that pathologists postmortem examinations suggested that most cases were dysentery, but that the majority of surgeons in the field had diagnosed diarrhea.3i Interestingly, he recalled few actual cases of dysentery but admitted that scores and scores of his II-... 

Of course, fever and its prevention was not quinine s only use. Charles Beneulyn Johnson mixed up whisky and quinine and administered the concoction to his Illinois comrades for exhaustion. 65 Billings observed that the proverbial prescription of the average army surgeon was quinine, whether for stomach or bowels, headache or toothache, for a cough or for lameness, rheumatism or fever and... 

Charles Beneulyn Johnson, Muskets and Medicine, or. Army Life in the Sixties (Philadelphia F. A. Davis, 1917), pp. 127-128. 

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