title: Who cared? Military nursing during the English civil wars and interregnum, 1642-60.
abstract: Very little work has been done on nursing prior to the nineteenth century; this chapter offers an examination of the profession in the mid-seventeenth century. Commonwealth Exchequer papers from the Long Parliament's Committee for Sick and Wounded Soldiers are used. The numbers treated, the nature of contemporary military treatment by surgeons and physicians, and the extant evidence for medical and nursing practice at these hospitals are detailed, and it is suggested that the quality was far superior to that assumed by many historians.
authors.forename: Eric Gruber
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: von Arni
mesh_terms: D049670:History, 17th Century; D006772:Hospitals, Military / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D008888:Military Nursing / Q000266:history*; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014857:Warfare