Scotland's Contribution to Naval and Military Medicine and Surgery

This book covers a lengthy time-span, from the late 18th Century to the First World War. It is a collection of essays by various authors on aspects of history which support the book's title. However, it is only the last two essays which actually relate to the Great War - "The Scottish Womens' Hospital Orthopaedic Centre", and " Scottish Contributions to Surgical Developments in the First World War". BY themselves, we consider that they give the book the right to be in the Collection. However, there is another reason why the book should be in the Collection. The first essay is "Bringing Enlightenment Thinking to the Battlefield. Sir John Pringle's "Observations on the Diseases of the Army"". Pringle, of course, came from Stitchill, a village within the Kelso District. Moreover, the house next to the Kelso Library where the Collection is kept, "Pringlebank", is thought to have been owned by Pringle, and played its own important part in the Scottish Enlightenment.