The soldier's vade mecum: or, the method of curing the diseases and preserving the health of soldiers ... Translated from the Latin / ... To which is added, a treatise on the same subject, translated from Frederic Hoffman [sic] ... Also an essay on the diseases of sailors.

  • Lucantonio Porzio
Date:
1747
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Credit: The soldier's vade mecum: or, the method of curing the diseases and preserving the health of soldiers ... Translated from the Latin / ... To which is added, a treatise on the same subject, translated from Frederic Hoffman [sic] ... Also an essay on the diseases of sailors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [2] plodes all ufelefs Difputes, confines his Refearches after. Truth to no particular Syflem, -exa- mines in a Manner relative to the human Con- ftitution, all the Non naturals, or the various Kinds of Foods and Exercifes we ufe, and, by a fure and eafy Method, determines which are falutary and which noxious. He firft enquires into thofe Things which contribute to Health, from them deduces the Caufes of moft Difeafes ; and, to render his Doétrine more intelligible, i}- luftrates it by Examples drawn from the Efic cts produced by every thing we ufe. His Detail is fo circumftantiate and particular, as to extend to the Marks and Signs by which good Bread ts known ; and he highly extols thefe who firft invented the Method of converting the various Species of Grain (which without Preparation would afford but crude and difagreeable Nourifh- ment) into a grateful and falutary Aliment. | I thall therefore, in Imitation of the divine Hippocrates, inquire into the Nature of thofe ing Treatife ; and without defcending to Trifles, by fome infifted on in order to be thought learn- ed, briefly lay down the Meafures to be taken b Soldiers for the Prefervation of their Health in we may know the Changes, incident to their Manner of living in Camps, and the Difeates produced by them. « ~~, ~