Oeconomical and medical observations, in two parts. From the year 1758 to the year 1763, inclusive. Tending to the improvement of military hospitals, and to the cure of camp diseases, incident to soldiers. To which is subjoined, an appendix, containing a curious account of the climate and diseases in Africa, upon the great River Senegal, and farther up than the island of Senegal. In a letter from Mr. Boone. Practitioner in physic to that garrison for three years, to Dr. Brocklesby / By Richard Brocklesby, physician to the army, fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society at London.

  • Richard Brocklesby
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M.DCC.LXIV
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Credit: Oeconomical and medical observations, in two parts. From the year 1758 to the year 1763, inclusive. Tending to the improvement of military hospitals, and to the cure of camp diseases, incident to soldiers. To which is subjoined, an appendix, containing a curious account of the climate and diseases in Africa, upon the great River Senegal, and farther up than the island of Senegal. In a letter from Mr. Boone. Practitioner in physic to that garrison for three years, to Dr. Brocklesby / By Richard Brocklesby, physician to the army, fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society at London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ * ] 1 Vi W V, i!i M “*V. .>: Vi* > >: MILITARY ) 4 ' ■ 4 - ' HOSPITALS CONSIDERED. ^ v : I I Prefume to befpeak the attention of the public to the following Ef- fays, however fhort and defective from what I could wifh them to be, concerning the regimen of the health of foldiers in Great Britain, as well in their encampments, as in military hof- pitals 5 that the knowledge and re¬ membrance of feveral hints and ob- fervations, may not be loft and buried in oblivion with thofe Gentlemen who have made them ; but that the expe¬ rience of our time may be rendered B fubfer-