Observations on the diseases of the army / by Sir John Pringle, bart.

  • Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782.
Date:
1810
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Credit: Observations on the diseases of the army / by Sir John Pringle, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    DEDICATION. TO THE STUDENTS OF MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEHOLD! gentlemen, another attempt by your pre- ceptor to transplant a vigorous and fruitful European ■$ plant into the soil of our country; or, in other words, >. behold, in the following American edition of sir John Pringle's Observations upon the Diseases of the Bri- 3 tish Army, an attempt to increase and diffuse medical n knowledge in the United States from a source to which _j physicians and learned societies have done homage in every part of the world. The opinions of the illustri- ous author, with a few exceptions, which are pointed out in the notes by the editor, accord with modern the- ories of medicine, and his practice is the result of ex- tensive and accurate observations in a climate nearly similar to that in which we live. Permit me to recom- mend this work to your frequent perusal, and to as- sure you that the more you know of acute diseases, the more you will perceive the truth of the Observa- tions, and the value of the precepts contained in it.