Notes And Recollections Of A Professional Life - Softcover

William Fergusson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461585294 ISBN 13: 9780461585292

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Notes And Recollections Of A Professional Life by William Fergusson is a posthumous collection of his professional reflections, assembled after his death. The volume divides into two main sections: Part First, Military Tactics, and Part Second, Plagues and Quarantine, Yellow Fever, Typhus, and Contagion, each drawing on Fergusson’s decades of service as an army surgeon, inspector-general of military hospitals, and public-health advocate. The Editor’s Preface explains that the manuscript, begun during his active career and completed by his son after his death, offers practical observations on the British army, its discipline, barracks life, medical organization, and field operations, as well as a wide range of topics in public health and battlefield medicine. The text includes discussions on battles, hospital administration, disease control, quarantine, and the contested issue of contagion versus atmospheric conditions. Though not a completed systematic work, it preserves Fergusson’s empirical, reform-minded voice, grounded in long experience and a passion for truth and humane administration. The work was published in 1846.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461585294
• ISBN 13: 9780461585292
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280