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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    *5 unufed to garrifon duty and cold quarters, and 1742. unprovided with clothes fuited to the country, and to the leafon, at this time particularly Sharp, were fubjed. There was no other considerable ailment except the itch, which indeed Soon after landing; was fo general, that the officers believed that either the fait provifions at Sea, or the change of air, had been the caufe of fo Sudden and extenfive a com¬ plaint. But it was Solely owing to the contagion of a few, who having the diilemper before embark¬ ation, communicated it to their companions either on board the Ships, or in the barracks after their arrival in Flanders* TheSe were the principal difeafes of our troops in garrifon. The lefs frequent were dropfies and consumptions, whereof the former were the confe- quences of obflinate autumnal fevers ill cured * and the latter, of neglected colds. But the mod alarming was a fever, in the hof- pital, of a particular kind, flow in its courfe, attended with a funk pulfe and a conftant fiupcr: the novelty and danger, more than the number Seized, made this diftemper considerable. The caufe was at firft miitaken, but afterwards it appeared to arife from the foul air of feme of the wards crouded with Sick, efpecially of one in which a man lay with a mortified limb. This fever was con¬ fined to that houfe, and as it is molhly found
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