An exposure and refutation of various misrepresentations published by Dr. M'Grigor and Dr. Jackson in their separate letters to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry ... / by Edward Nathaniel Bancroft.
- Bancroft Edward Nathaniel, 1772-1842.
- Date:
- 1808
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An exposure and refutation of various misrepresentations published by Dr. M'Grigor and Dr. Jackson in their separate letters to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry ... / by Edward Nathaniel Bancroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![' * I . I have converfed fince the publication of my Letted' have frankly owned that they have fometimes fent thchr fick into general hofpitals in the manner ftated. 1 have a letter before me from Dr. Roberts, who Was till latel]^ phyfician to the army, and ferved feveral years in thfe Weftindies during the laft war, in which,fpeaking of the ftate in which patients were fent to the general hofpital at St. George's in Grenada, while he had the fuperin- tendance of them, and while Dr. M‘Grigor was thtf^,' he fays that “ they were brought frequently in articuh mortis, many dying in tranjitu from the bier to the bed. As occurrences of this kind have been fo numerous, k is furprifing that Dr. M^Grigor, who pretends to a com’- plete knowledge of all the circumftances incidental to general hofpitals, (hould venture to deny them ; and his denial feems the more extraordinary, becanfe feveral inftances of them are mentioned (as will prefently be fhewn) in thofe very “ returns from the general hofpi- tal of the Ifle of Wight” to 2oth April 1808, from which he has calculated the mortality therein as being in the pro- portion of one out of ten patients, and which he muft be fuppofed to have feen before he could be enabled to make that calculation. But of all the general hofpitals, which are now, ot have at any time been eftabliftied in any part of the world, for the lick of the Britilh army, there is no one which is lefs proper than this of the depot at the Ille of Wight, to be made the fubjedfof a comparifon with Re- gimental hofpitals, for the purpofe of eftablifhing the juft proportion which the mortality happening in the latter bears to that happening in general hofpitals. This un- fitnefs for comparifon arifes from two caufes which do not belong in common to general hofpitals, but are pe- culiar to the depot hofpital. The firft of thefe peculi-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21730878_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
