A small Quantity of Medicines, some Wine, Rice, portable Soop, &c. and Utensils for a small Hospital, and two, three, or four hundred Sets of Bedding, should be carried about with the Army, in Case of an Action, for the Use of the Wounded, till they have Time to receive Assistance from the Flying Hospital. Some of the Bedding ought to be carried on Horseback, so as to be at Hand when any of the Surgeons are sent with Detachments that are going upon an Attack. To prevent crowding the General Hospitals in Winter Quarters, every Regiment ought to take Care of their own Sick, and to have proper Hospitals fitted up for them. Dr. _Pringle_ has laid down some very good Directions with regard to the Choice of Places fit for Hospitals, and the Method of preventing infectious Disorders in them; and we find many excellent Hints of this Kind in Dr. _Lind_ and Mons. _du Hamel_’s Treatises on the Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen, and some likewise in Dr. _Brocklesby_’s late Treatise on military Disorders. In the Time of Service the Commander in Chief generally orders the Hospitals to be established in Towns or Villages that least interfere with the military Operations, to which the Sick and Wounded can most easily be conveyed; and which he can best protect from the Insults of the Enemy[155]. [155] The _Roman_ Generals seem to have sent their Sick and Wounded into Towns, in the same Manner as is done by those of the present Time. For we read in _Cæsar’s Commentaries_ of this Method having been practised on more Occasions than one. In the sixty-second Chapter of the third Book, _de Bello Civili_, we have the following Passage: “Itaque nulla interposita mora, sauciorum modo & ægrorum habita ratione, impedimenta omnia silentio prima nocte ex castris _Apolloniæ_ præmisit, ac conquiescere ante iter confectum vetuit. His una legio missa præsidio est.”--And immediately after, in chap. lxv. “Itaque præmissis nunciis ad Cn. Domitium Cæsar scripsit, & quid fieri vellet ostendit: præsidioque _Apolloniæ_ cohortibus iv. _Lissi_ i. tres _Orici_ relictis; quique erant ex vulneribus ægri depositis; per Epirum atque Arcarniam iter facere cæpit.” And in the twentieth chapter, _de Bello Africano_, we read: “_Labienus_ saucios suos, quorum numerus maximus fuit, jubet in plaustris deligatos _Adrumentum_ deportari.” It would be a right Measure, in the Beginning of every War, to settle by a Cartel that military Hospitals on both Sides should be considered as Sanctuaries for the Sick, and mutually protected; as was agreed upon between the late Earl of _Stairs_, who commanded the _British_ Troops, and the Duke _de Noailles_, who commanded the _French_ in the Campaign in _Germany_ in the year 1743. See _Dr. Pringle’s Preface_.