The soldier's friend, or, the means of preserving the health of military men ... / By William Blair.

  • Blair, William, 1766-1822.
Date:
1798
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Credit: The soldier's friend, or, the means of preserving the health of military men ... / By William Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    lead- as often witkered on the hero’s brow by the peflilential blad of cont.’gion, as torn from it by the nervous arm of ftrength. That ficknefs is not the necedary con- fequence of a military life, may be learn- ed by adverting to the accounts remain- ing of the campaigns of the ancients. Among the circumftantial details of the operations of Julius Csefai ’s well difei- plincdarmy, in a variety of climates and fituations, no mention is made by that commander of any enterprize having been defeated by the ficknefs of his troops ; nor does he notice any other fources of difc.ife, than thofe whivh were the in- evitable refijlt of the cafualties of war. Hence may be deduced the poffibi- lity of preferving the heahh of armies; which, as we are informed by Xenophon’s inftitutions of Cyrus, ufed to con'titute a [>art of the regular education of every man intended to com.nand. A long fea voyage was formerly con- fidered as one of the moft unhealthy fituations