Observations on the diseases of the army / [Sir John Pringle].

  • John Pringle
Date:
1775
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Credit: Observations on the diseases of the army / [Sir John Pringle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are frequent and violent, yet there are few coun¬ tries that are totally exempted from them. For the heats, if great, tend to relax the folids and corrupt the humours; under which circumflances, if the body is expofed to fogs and noCturnal damps, in autumn, or in that leafoii receives improper food, the fame kind of diforders, though lefs cha¬ racterized, lefs frequent, and lefs dangerous, will be incident to dry as well as to marfhy countries. Hence, even in the dried: camps, after great and continued heats, thefe fummer and autumnal fevers and duxes are more or lefs common ; for befides the natural moifture of a tent, the men will either by duty, or by mifconduCt, often fuffer from wet ground, wet clothes, no&urnal damps and colds: and the danger of their then falling ill is the greater, as the variations of heat and cold are more fenfible and frequent in the field than in quarters. But a fudden ftoppage of perfpiration, or of the other excretions, coming upon relaxed fibres, and a putrefcent date of the blood (arifing from a con- flant expedition to the fun) if not timely remedied, will generally occafion a remitting, or an intermit¬ ting fever, a cholera, or a flux; fo that thefe diftem- pers may be confidered, in fome degree, as incident to a camp as to a low and marfhy country. C H A P.
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