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Sir J ohn P ringle MD , Early S cottish E nlightenment Thought and the Origins of Modern Military Medicine
Author(s) -
Craig Stephen C.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/1754-0208.12161
Subject(s) - medicine
Sir J ohn P ringle published Observations on the Diseases of the Army in A pril 1752. Over the next two decades it was proclaimed by F rench, B ritish and G erman authors as the premier volume on the new subject of military medicine. Although P ringle's experiences in the War of the A ustrian Succession furnished clinical substance, his education at S t A ndrews and E dinburgh universities, and medical instruction under H ermann B oerhaave, provided the enduring ethical foundation for the theory and practice of the art by medical and line officers.