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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    [ 54] the various Species of Waters. I have often thought, during the Courfe of this Work. that the vaft Quantities of Water found in Hungary, might be a Reafon why the Soldiers had not fuch as was good; for if they had not found Water every where, they would have perhaps been at more Pains to find it: cities of Water, the Soldiers have found fuch as was excellent and falutary by digging Wells. I am not ignorant, that in Camps Wells have been fometimes digg’d which have. afforded bad Water, but this might poffibly be owing to the inform’d, that there are Wells, whofe Waters, when immediately drawn, are turbid and un- wholfome, but by ftanding a Night become tranf- parent, and are entirely deftitute of every bad Quality. But when vaft Crouds of Soldiers come to draw Water from a Well, in which there ts but little Water on a muddy Bottom, the Foun- tain muft neceflarily become turbid, and its Wa- ters noxious. ’Tis therefore cbvious from what has been faid, that there are good Waters in Hungary ; and that, if the Quality of the Soil does not pre- vent Ny
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