elief, cannot fail to excite the highest
Admiration of Your MAJESTY's Goodness in the Breast of every Subject,
and the warmest Gratitude in the Heart of every Soldier.

The Knowledge of these Circumstances induced me to flatter myself,
that a Work of this Kind would be agreeable to Your MAJESTY; and
should this Attempt towards pointing out the Means of alleviating
those Miseries, which necessarily attend a Military Life in the Time
of Service, be acceptable, I shall obtain the utmost of my Wishes; it
being the greatest Ambition of my Heart ever so to act as to merit
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.

THE PREFACE.

Among the numerous Authors of Observations in the Art of Physick,
there are but few who have expressly written on the Treatment of those
Distempers, most generally incident to an Army in the Field: The
following Work, therefore, seems to have a fair Claim to be acceptable
to the Publick, having been compiled during the Author's Attendance on
the _British_ Military Hospitals in _Germany_ in the late War; and in
order to render it of still further Use, he has occasionally added, by
Way of Note, the Practice of some of the most eminent Physicians in
similar Diseases, as well as a few Histories of Cases which passed
under his own Care at _St. George_'s Hospital, _London_.

To avoid the Repetition of the Composition of particular Medicines,
and the Interruption that would be given by their being inserted in
the Body of the Work, a small Pharmacopoeia is added, to which his
Practice in the Army Hospitals was chiefly confined.

In a commercial Country like our own, where Numbers of Hands are
constantly wanted for the carrying on our Manufactories, we have a
strong political Argument to add to that drawn from the Dictates of
Humanity, why the Life of every individual should be most carefully
attended to.

The Preservation of the Lives of Soldiers is then with us a Matter of
the highest Importance, in order to make as low as possible the Number
of Recruits who must be perpetually drawn off for the Service of War.
The Author has, therefore, in this Treatise, endeavoured to point out
the Means most likely to keep Men healthy when employed in different
Services; and also the Manner in which Military Hospitals ought to be
fitted u