Fluxes, fevers and fighting men : war and disease in ancien régime Europe 1648-1789

Fluxes, fevers and fighting men : war and disease in ancien régime Europe 1648-1789

Warwick, Eng. : Helion & Co., 2019.

199 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

355.345 L563 2019

(OCoLC)1048936576

Contents: Introduction -- Camps -- Sieges -- Marches -- Hospitals -- Conclusion.|"As plague began to recede from Europe, this study explains what exactly were these 'fluxes and fevers' that remained to afflict European armies in wartime and argues that they formed a single seasonal continuum that peaked in late summer. The isolation and incarceration of the military hospital characterized the response of the new armies to 'disorder' and to revivified notions of contagion. However, the hospital often prolonged the late summer morbidity/mortality spike into mid-winter by generating 'hospital fever' or typhus, the lice-borne disease that erupted whenever the cold, wet, hungry, transient, and unwashed huddled together. The cure was the disease. This scope of the study includes French army operations in some of its contiguous campaigning theatres, north Italy (1702 and 1734), the Rhineland (1734), Roussillon (1674), possibly Catalonia (1693), and, further afield, Bohemia (1742). The study also includes three case-studies involving the British army that include Ireland (1689), Portugal (1762), Dutch Brabant (1748), and the Rhineland (1743). The outliers are studies of Habsburg operations in and around Belgrade (1717 and 1737), and Russian operations in Crimea (1736)"--Provided by publisher.|Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-194) and index.|L2019M127

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