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7^ PRINTER of the? ENNSYLVANI A Packet.
S I R,
YOUR last paper contains many important
directions for preferring the health of soldiers,
addressed to the Officers in the American Ar
my. The author has shewn himfelf in that essay to be
well versed both in history and medicine. By duly at
tending to those inftru&ions, our army shall have little
use for hospitals. The soldier, however, will be more
obfervaat of his officer's inftruCions, provided heaMo
has some knowledge of the fubjeft, and perceives that
such regulations are absolutely necessary to his health.
But it may be proper on the soldier's account, that pre
cepts be repeated and let in different points of light;
by such means he will the better comprehend their
meaning and importance. For this reafoo I shall trou
ble you with two or three papers on the very fubjeCs
that have been already treated. My wi(h is only to in
force and explain the precepts already delivered; for the
matter contained in that short essay might have been ex
tended into a volume. This paper is addressed to those
who have no acquaintance with medicine.—The more
learned reader will admit this apology for manner and
style.
INSTRUCTIONS,^ SOLDIERS^ the
service , the United States, concerning the
mans of preferring HEALT H.
Of Cleanliness.
IT is extremely difficult to persuade soldiers that
cleanliness is absolutely neceflary to the health of an
army. They can hardly believe that in a military state
it becomes one of the necefaries of life. They are
either too careless to pay any attention to this fubjed,
or they deceive themselves by reasoning from cases that
are by no means similar. Hitherto they have enjoyed
a good state of health, though they paid little or no at
tention to such pundilios; hence they conclude, that,
tho'in the army, they shall continue to enjoy an equal
degree of health under the like degree of negligence:
Such reasoning has proved fatal to thousands. They
do not confider the prodigious difference there is in the
circumstances of five or fix people who live by them
feives on a farm, and of thirty or forty thoufa d men
who live together in a camp. The former chiefly sub
sist on vegetable food ; they lodge warm and dry, and
they breathe in pure air, which is not contaminated by
noxious vapours: The latter in general subsist too much
on animal food; they sleep frequently an cold and damp
beds, and they breathe in foul air, that is constantly
injured by the very breath of a multitude, and is fre
quently rendered much more dangerous by the flench
or exhalations that arise from putrid bodies. The air
is injured, as I have just said, by the breath of a mul
titude, and the perspirable matter that comes through
the pores of the skin helps to extend the disorder. But
the blood and offals of cattle that are killed near the
camp, with the different animal substances that are daily
thrown there by the soldiers themselves, must soon fill
the air with a pestilential smell, unless they are imme
diately removed or covered fufficiently deep. When
the soldier pours out water in which flefh has been boil
ed; when in a peevish mood be throws away part of his
ration, because it is too much roasted, or because it is
not roasted enough ; or even when he throws away
bones that are net well picked; he seldom confiders
that such things must soon become putrid, and that he
is sowing the feeds of disease and death far himfelf or
his companions. The soldier should burn his meat ra
ther than throw it away: History informs us that great
armies have followed this rule. Soldiers are not sup
posed to be acquainted with the art of preferring health;
they are little versed in books, but, to the honor of
American soldiers, it is allowed that no men in Chnf
tendons of the fame occupation are so well acquainted
with their bibles: Let them, once more, read the hi
story and travels of the Children of Israel while, they
continued in the wilderness, under the conduct of Mo
ses; and let them confider at the fame time that they
are 'reading the history of a great army, that continued
forty years in their different camps, under the guidance
^nd regulations of the wisest General that ever lived,
lor he was inspired. In the history of these people the
soldier must admire the lingular attention that was paid
to the rules of clcaolinefs. They were obliged to wadi
their hands two or three times a day. Foul garments
were counted abominable; every thing that was pollu
ted or dirty was absolutely forbidden; and such persons
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as had fores or diseases in their ficin were turned out of
the camp* The utmost pains were taken to keep the
air in which they breathed free from infe&ion. They
were commanded to have a place without the camp, whi
ther they should go,t and have a padd'e with which the,
should dig, so that wheh the, went abroad to ease them
selves, the, might turn back and c^ver that which came
from them.^
Besides these general regulations it is also necessary for
the preservation of health, that every soldier be parti
cularly attentive to his own perlon. Ihe straw on which
he fleops should be frequently dried, and he should ne
ver spread it on damp ground, when he can get hurdles,
bark, boards, leaves, or,any other dry substance to put
under it. A soldier should change hit shirt and stock
ings once every two or three days; tho his stock of
linen is small, a shirt is soon walked. Little attention
is due to the color provided it be clean. Women are
never wanting in a camp for such offices. A man is
seldom aware of the quantity of noxious matter that
comes.through his own skin and is deposited on his shirt;
but if he takes up a shirt that has been worn a few days
by another person, he is frequently offended by the dis
agreeable smell.
These are fame of the reafo^s why Cleanliness
of every kind is necessary towards preserving health in
an army: They arereafons which every soldier may
anderftand; but should he neglect to regulate himfelf
accordingly, the regimental Surgeon will doubtless at
tend to the negled, and his officers will fee that he does
his duty. For every soldier by his negle& not only
endangers his own life, but the life of his companions.
Nature or the God of Nature has commanded, that men
who live in camps fhafr be cleanly: Whoever proves
too obstinate or too flothful to obey this command, may
expert to be punished with death or fuffer under some
dangerous disease.,
W.
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New-Jersey, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
NO TIC Eis hereby given, That a Court of Ad
miralty will be held at Haddonfield in the county
ui Gioucafter, on Wednesday the 21st day of May next,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day, (or as soon
after as the said Court shall dire&) then and there to try
the truth of the fa&s alledged in tire Bill of Thomas Sea
brook, Eq; (who as well, fc) against the brigantine
called the RABY, &c, burthen about fixt) tons, lately
in the pofftffi siarid under the Command of Captain El
phingfton. To the end and intent, that the owner or
owners pf the laid ship, her cargo, &c. or any person con
cerned therein, may appear arid (hew cause, if any they
have, why the fame should not be condemned according
to the prayerof the said Bill. By order of the Judge,
Aprils, 1777. W. LIVINGSTON, Jun. Register.
New-Jersey, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
NOTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
miralty will be held at Haddonfield in the county
or Gioucefter, on Wednesday the 21st day of May next,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the lame day, (or as soon
after as the said Court shall dire&) then and there to try
the truth of the fa&s alledged in rhe Bill of John Field
and John Monro, Efq\s. (who as well, &c.) againit the
schooner called the POPESHEAD, &c. burthen
about seventy tons, lately commanded by Hugh Mur
phy. To the end and intent, that the owner or owners
of the said ship, her cargo, &c. or any person concerned
therein, may appear and shew cause, if any they have,
why the fame should not be condemned, according to the
prayer of the said Bill. B, order of the Judge,
April 22, 1777. W. LIVINGSTON, Jun. Register.
New-Jersey, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
NOTI CE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
miralty will be held at Haddonfield in the county
of Gloucester, on Wednesday the 21st day of Maynext,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day, (or as soon
after as the said Court shall dived) then and there to try
the truth of the fads alledged in the Bill of Richard So
mers, Esq ; (who as well, &c.) against the brigantine
called the DEFIAN C E, burthen about eighty tons.
To the end and intent, that the owner or owners of the
said Ship, her cargo, &c. or any person concerned therein,
may appear and fliew cause, it any they have, why the
fame should not be condemned pursuant to the prayer of
the faid^Bill. By order of the Judge,
Ap/il %%, 1777. W. LIVINGSTON, Jun. Register.
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APRIL 29, 1777.
THE
ADVERTISER.
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in and near B Irimore will fettle their accounts with Mr.
James Hayes, of that place.
Ju!t printed, publ (bed, and now felling by KOBER f
BELL, next door to St. Paul's Church, in Tuird
ftreet Philadelphia, [Price two thirds of a dollar, with
a curious frontfpiece, which cost above sixty dollars.]
THE DEATH ofGENERAL MONTGO
MERY, in storming the city of Qy Eb£% A
Tragedy. With an ODE in honor of the Pennfy!vania
Militia, and a small band of regular Continental Troops,
who sustained the campaign, in the depth of winter, Ja
nuary, 1777, and repulled the British forces from the
banks of the Delaware. By the author of a dramatic
piece on The Battle of Bunker's Hil^. To which
are added, Elegiac Pieces, commemorative of diftin
guithed Charafters: By different Gentlemen.
Htc, manus, ob patriam pugnando, vulnera paffi.
Patriots who perith'd in their country's right.
Pitt's Virgil,
Philadelphia, April 25, 1777.
TH E Subferiber returns his,un
feigned thanks to those ladies and gentlemen who
have been pleated to favor him with their cuftorn,—-and
earnestly requests all persons indebted to him by bond,
note, or book account, will endeavor to fettle their ac
counts in two months at fartheft : And all who have any
accounts against him are desired to call immediately at his
house, and receive their just demands,
t George campbell, Taylor.
WILL COVER this season, at the
stable of the fubferiber, in Red Lyon Hundred,
New-CaftleCounty, at thirty five (hillings the season, and
two (hillings and sixpence to the gr®om, the money to be
paid when the mare is fi.lt covered. He is five years old,
fifteen hands high, a dark bay, has a small blaze, one
white foot, a black mare and tail, and is equal in beauty
to any horse bred on the Continent. Good care will be
taken of any Mares which may be sent, and pasture pro
vided at three (hillings per week.
JAMES M'CULLOGH.
TRUE briro-NT
AW ELL known Hors e, formerly the
property of General Heard, now belonging to the
fubicriber, is kept at the house lately occupied by Mr.
John Bogart, on the bld York road, in Pennsylvania;
about fix miles £om Corell's Ferry, and now kept by Mr.
Bennet. He will cover Mares this season at said place on
the following terms,—three dollars a leap, three pounds
the season, or fix pounds to ensure a mare with foal. Good
pasture for mares at five (hillings per week.
t. RALPHMARSH.
N. B. It is needless to enter into a detail ofTrue Bri
ton's pedigree, as he is as well known as any horse on the
Continent, and in as good order as ever he was.
DESERTED from Capt. John
Mayer's company, in the fourth Pennsylvania re
giment, WILLIAM FARR EL, born in Virginia,
late residing in Laycock towofhip, Lancaffer county, by
trade a taylor, and ferred his time with Robert Stuart.
Had on a coarse hunting shirt and a pair of linen drawers.
Whoever takes him up and returns him to his Captain
shall have TEN DOLLA R S reward.|
T O BE L E T,
And entered on the fifteenth of May next,
A PLANTATION in Frederick County, Mary
fl land, situate on the great road leading from Fee
denck-Town to York-Town in Pennsylvania, cliff nt go
miles from each, containing 540 acres, whereon is a con
venient square log-house, which is now, and has for
many years been occupied as a tavern. There is also a
log barn, stable and cow-house; a bearing orchad of
about 140 trees, a crop in the ground of about 30 acres of
wheat and rye, which will be fold reafcnible to the te
nant. There is about 1$ acaes of choice meadow malp,
and plenty of excellent pasturage, &c. &c. &c. For te ms
apply to William Harris, in Springfi Id Townfh p,
in Chester County, Pennsylvania; or to Mr. Joseph
M'Killup, in Tawney-Town, fire miles from the pre
mises.
Jujt published andjo be fold by JOHN DUNLAP, in
Market street, Philadelphia,
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For the Government of the TROOPS railed by
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