Article ID: CBB001552976

Sir John Pringle MD, Early Scottish Enlightenment Thought and the Origins of Modern Military Medicine (2015)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Agostini, Filiberto
Borri, Matteo
Carol Acton
Charters, Erica
Waisse, Silvia
Reid, Fiona
Concepts
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Medical schools
Medicine
World War I
Disease and diseases
Nurses and nursing
Time Periods
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Renaissance
17th century
Places
Europe
Edinburgh
Italy
North America
France
Great Britain
Institutions
Université de Montpellier
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Università di Bologna
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