Proceedings and report of a special medical board appointed by ... the Commander in Chief, and the Secretary at War, to examine the state of the hospital at the military depot in the Isle of Wight.

  • Great Britain. Army Medical Services
Date:
1808
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Credit: Proceedings and report of a special medical board appointed by ... the Commander in Chief, and the Secretary at War, to examine the state of the hospital at the military depot in the Isle of Wight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    POSTSCRIPT. During the time the preceding pages were in the press the following letter was received from Mr. Keate. The subjoined reply was transmitted ; and Mr. Keate afterwards signified his wish to have the letter printed with this publication. Letter from the Surgeon-General to the Members of the late Special Medical Board. Gentlemen, Albany, July id, 1808, “ When preparing for the press that part of my late publication* which relates to your proceedings as a Board at the Isle of Wight, in Dec. 180], I found among other papers a memorandum (the original of which I recollected to have seen in the hand-writing of Dr, Hunter), stating the hours of your land¬ ing on, and departure from, the Isle of Wight* by which it seems that you had passed only twenty seven hours on the island; and I found another memorandum, made on what I considered a $ good authority, from which it appeared that you had been only c about three hours employed in examining what related to the hospital’ there.