Important official documents relative to the disagreements between the members of the late Army Medical Board. Not included among the papers printed by order of the House of Commons.

  • Great Britain. Army Medical Services
Date:
1810
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Credit: Important official documents relative to the disagreements between the members of the late Army Medical Board. Not included among the papers printed by order of the House of Commons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/46 (page 10)
    I TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE t LORD GRANVILLE LEVISON GOWER, SECRETARY AT WAR, &c. [Copy.] My Lord, jinny Medical Board Office} August 4th, 1809. Origin of the dillentions iu the Army Medical Board, I Have now the honor to ful- 111 the engagement to which I pledged myself in my letter of the 20th ultimo, in which I entreated your Lordship to suspend your judgment in regard to my conduct until I should have had a reasonable time to answer the asper¬ sions and injurious misrepresentations contained in the Inspector General’s letter of the 18th ultimo. That the disagreement between the Inspector General and his colleagues is now become most serious is a truth, which I have no desire to conceal; but in joining issue with Mr. Knight upon this point, I must assert most unequivocally, that he is exclusively chargeable with the blame resulting from this disagreement, as hav¬ ing been the original author and promoter of every thing which has occurred to disturb the harmony of the Army