Remarks on the constitution of the medical department of the British Army : with a detail of hospital management, and an appendix, attempting to explain the action of causes in producing fever and the operation of remedies in effecting cure / by Robert Jackson M.D.

  • Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Remarks on the constitution of the medical department of the British Army : with a detail of hospital management, and an appendix, attempting to explain the action of causes in producing fever and the operation of remedies in effecting cure / by Robert Jackson M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wounded of their armies; but they do not all a£l upon the fame principle in the execution of their views, nor do they all arrange their plans with the fame means of information of what is fit for the purpofe. The fubjefl is complex. It comprehends a wide range of general and pradlical knowledge of military fervice, as well as, a corred acquaintance with the hiflory, caufes, and confequences of the difeafes, to which troops are moft liable—in the field or in quarters. Mechanical Au army is an animated machine, confiding tion of ar- of many parts or inftruments of different degrees of power and importance, in a general purpofe. It is organized upoi) a common principle, it is bound together by a common connexion, and it is moved by a common impulfe ; but though fo organized, fo conneded, and fo moved in its artificial arrangement, its different parts, which are perfeft in themfelves individually, are ani- mated independently, and, in obeying their own laws of motion, are expofed to the a6lion of a variety of caufes, which have a tendency to de= range or deflroy their elementary exiftenceo When ikilfully compofed, it proceeds fteadily in its military courfe, if the phyfical properties of its parts are entire; but the caufes which derange thefc are numerous, and, when deranged, though but partially deranged, the general movement is embarraffed, the adion of the machine is even paralyfed. To obviate the occurrence of this impediment is an important objeft of care; even to check the extent of the evil, when it does arife.