e Health of the Soldiers.

[116] In the Year 1760, the Men, who remained in the fixed
Camp about _Warbourg_, were very unhealthy; while the
Regiments who were detached to the _Lower Rhine_, under the
Command of the Hereditary Prince of _Brunswick_, enjoyed a
much better State of Health; and notwithstanding their great
Fatigues, and the Loss they sustained at the Affair of
_Kampen_, were much stronger when they rejoined the Army to
go upon the Winter Expedition into the Country of _Hesse_,
than those Regiments which had remained in the fixed Camp.

Diseases are more or less frequent in Armies according as the Season
is hot or cold, wet or dry; according to the Nature of the Climate,
and the Time of the Year in which military Operations are carried on;
the Nature of the Ground on which the Army is encamped, or the
Situation of the Towns or Villages in which they are cantonned; the
Cleanness, Neatness, and Dryness of the Camp, and of the Tents or
Houses in which the Soldiers are lodged; according as the Men are
supplied with Provisions, and good Water, good Beer, Wine, or other
fermented Liquors; or are well cloathed, and well furnished with Straw
and Blankets; in proportion as the Duty is more or less severe; and to
the Care taken of such as are attacked with Sickness.

Soldiers generally enjoy good Health in cold dry Weather, even during
the Time of severe Frost; if they be kept in Exercise, be well
cloathed, and well supplied with Provisions and good Liquors, and
with Wood; as the Troops, both in _Germany_ and _North America_,
experienced during the late War; but Cold joined to Moisture was
observed always to be productive of Diseases.

Nor is mere Heat of itself such an Enemy to Health[117] as is
generally apprehended; but when joined to Moisture, is observed to
give Rise to the most fatal Disorders in the warm Climates.

[117] This Dr. _Pringle_ takes Notice of; and Mr. _Naesmith_
says, he observed it in Voyages to the _East Indies_, which
afford the fairest Trials of this Kind. See Dr. _Lind's Essay
on the Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen_, 2d edit.
note to page 5.

In our northern Climates the Winters are cold, and the Weather
variable; sometimes it is cold and rainy, at other Times thick and
foggy; sometimes we have fair Weather and Sunshine, at other Times
Frost and Snow; and sometimes it happens that we have all these
different Sorts of Weath