A short account of the most common diseases incident to armies ... / Translated from the original.

  • Swieten, Gerard, Freiherr van, 1700-1772
Date:
1762
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Credit: A short account of the most common diseases incident to armies ... / Translated from the original. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The great and frequent inconveniences at¬ tending a military life, are of fuch a nature, as make the greateft havock, even among the mofi: robuft conditutions. It is nos therefore furprlfing, that an Army is feldom or ever without a great number of Tick. V Nevertheless, it has been obferved, that the diflempers moilly prevalent among the I Troops are not in number very confiderable. We have, for this reafon, thought it fulH- cient to fpeak of thofe, whofe attacks the fol- dier is moft fubje6f to, to defcribe them in fuch ' a manner, as they may be diftinguifhed from ^one another by certain Tigns ; and at the fame Iitime to give an account of fuch fymptoms as jicharadferife the decreafe or increafe of each dif- ijorder ; and laflly, to fpecify the medicines pro- ' jper for the cure of the fick, and the diet they are to obferve. I A 2 It