Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1021

JEAN COLOMBIER (1736-1789) Code de médecine militaire. Chez J. P. Costard 1772 16.1 cm.

At the time Colombier wrote the present work, he was director of the military hospital in Paris. He eventually became inspector-general of all French hospitals and prisons. His work is organized into three parts: health of troops in the field and barracks, military hospitals, and diseases common to soldiers. Colombier chronicles the almost insurmountable problems relative to the health of military personnel in prerevolutionary France. The role of proper housing, food, clothing, adequate medical and surgical care, as well as quarantine and medical problems common to the military, are discussed by the author in an orderly manner and with an attitude of compassion and concern. The rules and precepts he recommends and many of the morbid conditions he describes still apply in many of the world's armies today.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.