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This 1752 book (reissued here in its 1753 edition) has probably not received the credit it deserves. Its author, military physician John Pringle, aware that the hospitals designed to treat wounded soldiers were in fact part of the problem, makes practical suggestions to improve hygiene and isolate the sick.
List of contents
Preface; Part I: 1. Of the air and endemic diseases of the Low Countries; 2. A general account of the garrison diseases of the British in Flanders; 3. A general account of the diseases of the British troops, during the campaign in Germany; 4. A general account of the diseases of the campaign in Flanders, 1744; 5. A general account of the diseases of the campaign in Flanders, 1745; 6. A general account of the diseases of the campaign in Great Britain, 1745 and 1746; 7. A general account of the diseases of the campaigns in Dutch-Brabant, 1746–7; 8. A general account of the diseases of the campaigns in Dutch-Brabant, 1748; Part II: 1. Of the division of diseases most incident to an army; 2. Of the causes of diseases most incident to an army; 3. Of the general means of preventing diseases in an army; 4. The seasons compared with relation to health; Part III: 1. Observations on the inflammatory fevers in general; 2. Observations on particular inflammations; 3. Observations on coughs, and the phthisis pulmonalis; 4. Observations on the fevers called bilious; 5. Observations on the camp-dysentery; 6. Observations on the malignant fever of the hospital; 7. Observations on the itch; Appendix: papers 1-7; Index.
Summary
This 1752 book (reissued here in its 1753 edition) has probably not received the credit it deserves. Its author, military physician John Pringle, aware that the hospitals designed to treat wounded soldiers were in fact part of the problem, makes practical suggestions to improve hygiene and isolate the sick.
