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- Title
Sir John Pringle MD, Early Scottish Enlightenment Thought and the Origins of Modern Military Medicine.
- Authors
Craig, Stephen C.
- Abstract
Sir John Pringle published Observations on the Diseases of the Army in April 1752. Over the next two decades it was proclaimed by French, British and German authors as the premier volume on the new subject of military medicine. Although Pringle's experiences in the War of the Austrian Succession furnished clinical substance, his education at St Andrews and Edinburgh universities, and medical instruction under Hermann Boerhaave, provided the enduring ethical foundation for the theory and practice of the art by medical and line officers.
- Subjects
SCOTLAND; PRINGLE, John, Sir, 1707-1782; HISTORY of military medicine; 18TH century medical history; ENLIGHTENMENT; MEDICAL practice; OBSERVATIONS on the Diseases of the Army (Book); MILITARY personnel wounded in action; ETHICS
- Publication
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2015, Vol 38, Issue 1, p99
- ISSN
1754-0194
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1754-0208.12161