ny of the Surgeons are sent with
Detachments that are going upon an Attack.

To prevent crowding the General Hospitals in Winter Quarters, every
Regiment ought to take Care of their own Sick, and to have proper
Hospitals fitted up for them.

Dr. _Pringle_ has laid down some very good Directions with regard to
the Choice of Places fit for Hospitals, and the Method of preventing
infectious Disorders in them; and we find many excellent Hints of this
Kind in Dr. _Lind_ and Mons. _du Hamel_'s Treatises on the Means of
Preserving the Health of Seamen, and some likewise in Dr.
_Brocklesby_'s late Treatise on military Disorders.

In the Time of Service the Commander in Chief generally orders the
Hospitals to be established in Towns or Villages that least interfere
with the military Operations, to which the Sick and Wounded can most
easily be conveyed; and which he can best protect from the Insults of
the Enemy[155].

[155] The _Roman_ Generals seem to have sent their Sick and
Wounded into Towns, in the same Manner as is done by those of
the present Time. For we read in _Caesar's Commentaries_ of
this Method having been practised on more Occasions than one.
In the sixty-second Chapter of the third Book, _de Bello
Civili_, we have the following Passage: "Itaque nulla
interposita mora, sauciorum modo & aegrorum habita ratione,
impedimenta omnia silentio prima nocte ex castris _Apolloniae_
praemisit, ac conquiescere ante iter confectum vetuit. His una
legio missa praesidio est."--And immediately after, in chap.
lxv. "Itaque praemissis nunciis ad Cn. Domitium Caesar
scripsit, & quid fieri vellet ostendit: praesidioque
_Apolloniae_ cohortibus iv. _Lissi_ i. tres _Orici_ relictis;
quique erant ex vulneribus aegri depositis; per Epirum atque
Arcarniam iter facere caepit."

And in the twentieth chapter, _de Bello Africano_, we read:
"_Labienus_ saucios suos, quorum numerus maximus fuit, jubet
in plaustris deligatos _Adrumentum_ deportari."

It would be a right Measure, in the Beginning of every War,
to settle by a Cartel that military Hospitals on both Sides
should be considered as Sanctuaries for the Sick, and
mutually protected; as was agreed upon between the late Earl
of _Stairs_, who commanded the _British_ Troops, and the Duke
_de Noailles_, who commanded the _French_ in the Campaign in
_Germany_ in the year 1743. See _Dr. P