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.

  • Thomas Keate
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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD GRANVILI.E LEVISON GOWER, SECRETARY AT WAR, &C. [Copy.] MY LORD, T JL Had lately the honour of ad- dressing a Letter to your Lordship, and requesting that all judgment might be suspended on the subject of Mr. Knight’s Letter of the 18th inst. till I could have time to answer the Charges therein made, concluding he could at least bring proofs to substantiate some of them. I have applied to him for this purpose, but find there is not a single specific Charge against me, only his Letter above mentioned contains, as your Lordship per- ceives, General Invectives, which requires only to answer in a General Way. Mr. Knight appears to have written the Letter to your Lordship in great anger with the Board of General Officers for not having severely censured five physicians of the army, for having stated their opinions on the sub- ject of the want of accommodation when our troops land-.
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