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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

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    TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD GRANVILLE LEVISON GOWER, SECRETARY AT WAR, &c. [Copy.] My Lord, Army Medical Board Office, July 18, 1809. X HAVE been honored with the communication of papers that have passed upon the investigation by a Board of General Officers, of the Hos¬ pital Arrangements in Spain, and on the subsequent re * turn of the army to England. I by no means presume to call in question any step that has been taken during the Enquiry, or to animadvert on the result, but I feel it incumbent on me, as a public officer, desirous of standing fair in the eyes of the world, explicitly to state to your Lordship, and the Commander in Chief, that it is impossible for me, either with a view to the advantage of the service, or to the safety of my own character, longer to act in a public capacity with my two colleagues. I forbear to enter into a relative view of our services; to advert to the oth Report of the Military Commis- A X