Army Hygiene (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Sir James mcgrigor gives a remarkable example of the extent to which an efficient medical staff may con duce to the success of military operations. He states that it was said with much truth by an eminent individual that he thought the extraordinary exertions of the medical officers of the army. Might be said to have decided the day at Vittoria; for their exertions had undoubtedly added a full division to the strength of Lord Wellington's army, and with out those or men, it is more than doubt ful if his lordship with all his unrivalled talents could have carried the day (autobiography, p.

Nor is it alone in times of war that the great in fluence for good, of a well administered medical department becomes apparent. If we refer to the works that have from time to time been written by army me dical officers from that on gun-shot wounds, of date 1 563, by Thomas Gale, who seems to have been the first systematic British writer on matters connected withmilitary medicine and surgery - down to the present day, it will be seen that they have not been behind hand in suggesting those improvements in diagnosis and treatment of disease, which have rendered the present state of medical science so greatly in advance of what it was three centuries ago.

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