Observations on the diseases of the army / [Sir John Pringle].

  • Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782
Date:
1775
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Credit: Observations on the diseases of the army / [Sir John Pringle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    them curforily ever, being fatisfed with laying down my general method of proceeding, and mark- ing the difference, // any, obferved in pre- feribing in military hofpitals. w/VA regard to the other clafs, including the autumnal remit¬ ting^ and intermitting fevers, what I have called the jail- <?r hofpital-fever, the dyfea¬ tery ^ as they are diftempers lefs frequent in this country, I thought proper to handle them more at length, and indeed in fo full a manner, tfj-1 hoped might injlrudl thofe who had been little converfant with them before. , \ * ■ * / .My obfer vat ions on the jail- or hofpitalfever were firjl publifked in the year 1750. ^ letter to Dr. Mead. But as that piece was haftily written, ccccfioned by the jail-diftemper breaking cut at that time in London, fome things were omitted, and fome mifakes were made, which I have endeavoured to fupply and rectify in this work, wherein that differtation is included*. * In the year 1722. a treatife was publlfhed here, intided, A Rational Inquiry into the Nature of the Plague, drawn from Hiflorical Remarks \ by John Pringle, M. D. As the fub- Jeft was fimilar to mine, and as the author was of the fame name, the writer of the index to M. de Haller’s edition of Boerkaave’s Methodus Studii Medici has referred that piece, my Letter to Dr. Mead-, and my Inaugural Differ tation [at Leyden, in the year 173c.] de Marcore Senili, to one perion. In juftice therefore to the author of that Inquiry, I take this op¬ portunity of informing the public of the miilake, which indeed it was natural for a foreigner to fall into.