Excerpt from The Prevention of Disease in Armies in the Field
This little book has been written in the hope that what is, in the main, a record of sanitary experience in the field may possibly prove of some interest to those whose attention is particularly drawn to the physical well-being of the soldier on service.
I must apologize for the constant introduction of the personal element on the ground that I have endeavoured to formulate my own conclusions from my own experience, and to avoid the repetition of well-known matter. How far my conclusions are justified I must leave to the judgment of readers.
Certain of my statements have already appeared in the British Medical Journal, Public Health, and the Journal of State Medicine.
I may take this opportunity of making clear the fact that remarks relative to the Revolutionary Army of France refer solely to men whose mental attributes were the result of an altogether exceptional state of society. There is, I should add, no intention to convey any suggestion of a slur on a chivalrous and courageous people, whose military achievements have formed the wonder of the civilized world.
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