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
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.
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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![IJVTE-ODUCTIOJf, As some passages of the Ofliciai Documents concerning the Inquiry into the late Expedition to Zealand, printed by order of the House of Commons, have disclosed the existence of dis- agreements among the members of the late Ai my Medical Board ; and as the statements therein made are but partial and imperfect, it has been thought right to print the three following Let- ters, addressed by the three respective members of that board, to the Secretary at War, which will convey much important information, and enable the reader to judge correctly of the origin and nature of these disagreements. Towards a better understanding of these Let- ters, it must be observed, that in April last, when the contagious fever, which had spread through a great part of the army at home, upon the return of the troops from Spain had abated, the Physician and Surgeon General transmitted to the Secretary at War communications from several army physicians, with a letter from them- selves, wherein they stated, that the accompany- ing communications v,ould demonstrate “ the calamities which must ensue if the system of Re- gimental Hospitals on foreign service was to be ])ersevered in, to supersede the use of General Hospitals;” and would also show “that the great virulence and progress of the contagious fever among the troops at Portsmouth, Plymouth, &c. and the consequent loss of about a thousand valuable lives had been principally occasioned hv a 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22396317_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
