And when they are in Quarters, and have nothing to do, they should narrowly inspect into their Manner of living; and have them out daily, when the Weather will permit, and exercise them, or march them two or three _English_ Miles a-Day, in order to prevent their falling sick for want of Exercise; for Soldiers left to themselves are very subject to Diseases when they come into Quarters after an active Campaign, by leading too indolent a Life, if Officers do not take Care to prevent it. However, at such Times, the Exercise ought to be moderate, and the Men should not be brought out in wet Weather. OF MILITARY HOSPITALS. Whenever Men are seized with Distempers, they ought immediately to be separated from those in Health, and either sent to the Regimental[148] or General Hospital. [148] Some of the regimental Surgeons in _Germany_, when they took the Field, had always some spare Tents carried along with their Medicine Chests; and when any of their Men fell sick in Camp, and they could get no House for a regimental Hospital in Villages, they ordered these Tents to be pitched, and had the Ground within well covered with Straw and Blankets, and then put the Sick into them, and there took Care of them till they found an Opportunity of sending them to the Flying Hospital. There is no Part of the Service that requires more to be regarded than the Choice of proper Places for Hospitals, and the right Management of them, on which the Health and Strength of an Army often depends; for in wet unwholesome Seasons, if infectious Disorders get into the Hospitals, which possibly might have been prevented by proper Care, they often weaken an Army in a very short Time far more than the Sword of the Enemy. We have no Account of the particular Manner in which the Antients took Care of their Sick and Wounded in Times of War; for although we read in _Homer_[149] of Surgeons or Physicians attending the _Grecian_ Camp, and in _Xenophon_[150] of _Cyrus_’s having appointed Physicians to his Army; and we learn from _Tacitus_[151] and _Livy_[152], that the wounded _Romans_ were received into the Houses of the Nobility, and had Physicians to attend them, and were furnished with Fomentations and other proper Remedies; and from _Justin_[153], that the _Lacedemonians_ followed the same Method: yet these Authors make no Mention of the particular Oeconomy or Manner in which these Hospitals were conducted. [149] _Homer_ mentions _Podalirius_ and _Machaon_, sons of _Æsculapius_, as two excellent Physicians or Surgeons in the _Grecian_ Army. Vid. _Iliad_, lib. ii. Physic and Surgery were antiently exercised by the same Persons. [150] Vid. _Xenophon. de Institut. Cyri._ lib. i. et viii.