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An account of the diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany, from January 1761 to the return of the troops to England in March 1763 / To which is added, an essay on the means of preserving the health of soldiers, and conducting military hospitals. By Donald Monro.

  • Monro, Donald, 1727-1802.
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MDCCLXIV
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Credit: An account of the diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany, from January 1761 to the return of the troops to England in March 1763 / To which is added, an essay on the means of preserving the health of soldiers, and conducting military hospitals. By Donald Monro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. They are to keep themfelves clean and decently dreffed, and to obferve the ftri&eft Rules of Sobriety; remembering, that if any one is found intoxicated with Liquor, that the is immediately to be fent to the Guard, and afterwards difcharged. 4. They are not to abfent themfelves from their Wards, unlefs when employed in the Dif- charge of their Duty; nor to go out of the Hofpital to which they belong, without having a Ticket of Leave figned by the Phyfician, Surgeon, Apothecary, or Head Nurfe, belong¬ ing to the Hofpital. r. They are not to throw Naftinefs of any Kind out at the Windows, but to carry it to the common Neceffaries, and to empty the Cham¬ ber Pots and Clofe-ftools as foon as ufed, and be careful to w’afti them before they bring them back. 6. They are not, upon any Pretence what¬ ever, to alter the Diet ordered by the Phyfi- cians or Surgeons to the Patients on the Diet Boards ; nor to fuffer their Patients to ufe any other Diet than what is allowed by the Hofpital; nor 3