A letter to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry, in reply to some animadversions of Dr. E. Nathaniel Bancroft on their fifth report / [Sir James McGrigor].

  • Sir James McGrigor, 1st Baronet
Date:
1808
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Credit: A letter to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry, in reply to some animadversions of Dr. E. Nathaniel Bancroft on their fifth report / [Sir James McGrigor]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    charges; the latter imputation is pecu¬ liarly enormous. If I was not in Gre¬ nada, I have published a falsehood: if I was in Grenada, Dr. Bancroft asserts a falsehood. Which is the fact, we shall proceed to enquire. To establish his first charge, that of inconsistency, illiberally insinuating at the same time that I have changed my opinion to promote my interest, he com¬ pares the evidence which I gave before you, with a passage in a work, entitled Medical Sketches. In answer to your question, “ whether I had observed the “ comparative advantages of the treat- “ ment of sick in general and regimental cc hospitals in the West Indies;” I told you that I had. I told you, “ that in “ the island of Grenada, in the year 1796, “ from the want of a medical staff, the “ sick and wounded, while the army con- “ tinned in the field, were treated rem- o “ mentally ; that though under many dis- <c advantages, the mortality was trifling, “ till after the return of the army to c 2
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