To which is added,
An ESSAY on the Means of Preserving the Health
of Soldiers, and conducting Military Hospitals.
LONDON:
Printed for A. Millar, D. Wilson, and T. Durham,
in the Strand; and T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate.
MDCCLXIV.
May it please Your Majesty,
To permit me to lay at yourFeet the following Sheets,published with a View to be usefulto those, who hereafter mayhave the Care of the Health ofyour Majesty’s Troops.[iv]
Your Majesty’s particularInquiries into the State of YourMilitary Hospitals, in everyQuarter of the World, in theTime of the late glorious andsuccessful War; Your Concernfor every Officer and Soldierwho suffered either by Sicknessor by Wounds in the Cause oftheir King and Country; andYour Solicitude to procure themevery possible Assistance and Relief,cannot fail to excite thehighest Admiration of YourMajesty’s Goodness in the[v]Breast of every Subject, and thewarmest Gratitude in the Heartof every Soldier.
The Knowledge of these Circumstancesinduced me to flattermyself, that a Work of thisKind would be agreeable to YourMajesty; and should this Attempttowards pointing out theMeans of alleviating those Miseries,which necessarily attenda Military Life in the Time ofService, be acceptable, I shallobtain the utmost of my Wishes;[vi]it being the greatest Ambitionof my Heart ever so to act as tomerit Your Majesty’s Approbation,and to subscribe myself,
May it please Your Majesty,
Your Majesty’s most dutiful Subject,
And most faithful
and humble Servant,
DONALD MONRO.
Among the numerous Authorsof Observations in the Art ofPhysick, there are but few who haveexpressly written on the Treatment ofthose Distempers, most generally incidentto an Army in the Field: Thefollowing Work, therefore, seems tohave a fair Claim to be acceptable tothe Publick, having been compiledduring the Author’s Attendance on the...