A short account of the Royal Artillery Hospital at Woolwich : with some observations on the management of artillery soldiers, respecting the preservation of health addressed to the officers of the Regiment, and dedicated to the Master-General and Board of Ordnance / by John Rollo.

  • Rollo, John, -1809.
Date:
1801
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Credit: A short account of the Royal Artillery Hospital at Woolwich : with some observations on the management of artillery soldiers, respecting the preservation of health addressed to the officers of the Regiment, and dedicated to the Master-General and Board of Ordnance / by John Rollo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of the Means employed in the Royal Artillery Hofpital at Woolwieh to dejlroy Contagion^ and prevent its fpreading ; and thofe injurious Cir- cunijlances unfavourable to Health, which have been attributable to Hofpital Accommodation. AN hofpital may not only receive patients with infections difeafes, but it has been alfo found that a fpecies of contagion may be formed. In an hofpital infectious difeafes which have been admitted, may be commu- nicated to other patients, and to the attend- ants. If co'htagion is not formed in an hof- pital, fomething is very generally produced, which not only retards recovery, but endan- gers life. This is peculiarly fhewn in cafes of wounds, and compound fraCtures, which often prove fatal in large hofpitals, whillt much worfe cafes recover in private houfes. Therefore there are three objects which de- mand confideration. I. The