Saving the Army by William Morrice Mccrae
Sir John Pringle was born in 1707 in the Scottish Borders, where his ancestors had held land since the thirteenth century. He studied philosophy at St Andrews University and medicine at the universities of Edinburgh and Leiden. During the War of the Austrian Succession, Pringle was made Physician General to the British Army and was appalled to see the huge number of deaths resulting not from casualties of battle but from diseases such as typhus and dysentery. He introduced a wide range of improvements in hospital management and discipline, and in standards of care and sanitation/hygiene. His reforms helped to reduce the appalling number of deaths from disease that had previously been thought inevitable. His published account of this achievement, Observations on the Diseases of Army, brought him fame across Europe. Honoured by learned societies, he was made physician to King George III and the royal family, and was elected President of the Royal Society in London. At a time when medical practice was still guided by theories that had hardly changed for two thousand years, Pringle's revolutionary approach and scientific investigations earned him a place in medical history.
Morrice McCrae was House Physician and House Surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. After service in the army overseas he was Hall Fellow in Medicine at Glasgow University, and later became Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh University and Consultant Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh. After retirement he studied history at Edinburgh University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. His recent books include The National Health Service in Scotland: Origins and Ideals (2003), The New Club (2004), Physicians and Society (2008), Simpson: The Turbulent Life of a Medical Pioneer (2010) and Scottish Medicine: An Illustrated History (2011). In 2003 he was awarded the Medical History Prize of Glasgow University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906566753 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906566755 |
| Title | Saving the Army |
| Author | William Morrice Mccrae |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Donald Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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