" _Vid. lib._ ii.
cap. xlvii.

[153] _Justin_ mentions the same Thing of the _Spartans_
after their Defeat at _Sellasia_--"Patentibus omnes domibus
saucios excipiebant, vulnera curabant, lapsos reficiebant."
_Vid. lib._ xxviii. cap. iv.

The Hospitals commonly wanted for an Army acting on the Continent,
are,

1. One in the Rear, to follow their Motions, so as to be always ready
to receive the Sick from Camp, which is called the Moveable or Flying
Hospital. 2. One or more, at some Distance, in Towns, to receive such
of the Sick as can be moved from the Flying Hospital, when they are
obliged to go from one Place to another; or when a greater Number of
Sick is sent to them than they can easily take Care of[154].

[154] When Parties of Sick or Wounded are to be sent from
Camp, or from one Hospital to another, Care ought to be taken
that they are placed properly in the Waggons; that they have
proper physical People, Nurses, &c. to attend them; as well
as Provisions, and other Necessaries, so as to be in no
Danger of wanting any Thing while they are on their Journey.

Each of the Hospitals ought to be provided with Physicians, Surgeons
Mates, Purveyors, or Commissaries, and others, to attend and take Care
of the Sick.

Besides the physical People who attend the Hospital, one or two
Physicians ought to go along with the Army to attend the Commander in
Chief, and the General and Staff Officers, in Case of Sickness; and an
Apothecary, provided with a small Chest of Medicines, ought to attend
at Head Quarters to make up the Prescriptions of the Physicians.

A Number of Hospital Surgeons also, with Mates, ought to attend the
Army, to be ready in Case of an Action. These ought to be attached to
the Suite of the Commanders of the different Corps or Brigades, and to
be quartered or encamped with them. And each Surgeon should be
provided with a Waggon or some Horses loaded with a proper chirurgical
Apparatus, as Instruments, Bandages, Lint, and other Things necessary
for taking Care of the Wounded.

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 a