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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    and having pitched dole upon the river, they had 1743. the benefit of a conftant ftream of frefh air. By means of thefe favourable circumftances, it was remarkable, that while the main body thus buffered, this little camp almoft entirely efcaped * ; though thefe men breathed the fame air, the contagious part excepted, ufed the fame vi&uals, and drank of the fame water. This immunity continued for fix weeks, until the whole army removed from Hanau; when thefe companies joining the reft, and encamping in the line, were at laft infedted; but they fuffered little, as the flux was then much upon the decline. The dyfentery continued all the month of July and part of Auguft, being kept up by the hoc weather, and the bad air of the camp. Soon after the above-mentioned rains, which had cooled the air, the heats returned, and for fome weeks were fo great, that the humours, already difpofed, were further prepared to receive the infedtion. Of this, the chief fames feemed to be the foul ftraw and the privies; for as foon as we left that ground, on which we had fo long encamped, the diftemper vifibly abated. The numbers of the fick made the fymptoms worfe, as it happens in the fmall pox, plague, and every other putrid and infectious difeafe. But the bloody flux is particularly bad in crouded hofpitals, * I heard of only one man that was taken ill of the bloody flux. C 3 where
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