A letter to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry : containing animadversions on some parts of their fifth report ; and an examination of the principles on which the medical department of armies ought to be formed / by Edward Nathaniel Bancroft.
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- 1808
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Credit: A letter to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry : containing animadversions on some parts of their fifth report ; and an examination of the principles on which the medical department of armies ought to be formed / by Edward Nathaniel Bancroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![prevailed in the cafe of pbyficians.—They were confi- dered as poflefling abilities fuperior to thofe of the regimental furgeons, and were confequently allowed higher pay and rank, though both were inferior to thofe of the phyficians. In a courfe of years, fome of the regimental furgeons found means to get promotion, and become ftaff furgeons and phyficians, becaufe they either pofTefiTed greater abilities than others, or becaufe without greater abilities they had been able to recom- mend themfelves to men in high military fiations, who are rarely if ever competent judges of the qualifications of medical men. Thefe inftances, however, feldom, if ever, occurred unlefs vacancies occafioned by deaths abroad were to be filled up, and they were few in num- ber, before the year 1790. The phyficians employed with the Britilh army on the continent of Europe in and between the years 1742 and 1748 were Dr. Sandi- lands. Dr. Bailey, Dr. Lawfon, Dr. afterwards Sir John Pringle,Dr. afterwards Sir Clifton Wintringham, Dr. Maxwell, Dr. Clephane and Dr. Barker. Of thefe, the greater part are known to have been regu- larly educated phyficians, and I have no reafon to doubt of its having been the cafe with all of them. Du- ring the war which began in 1756 and ended in 1763, the phyficians employed with the Britifii forces in Germany and other places, appear to have been Sir Clifton Wintringham, Dr. Conyers, Dr. Mufiiet, Dr. Brook, Dr. Brocklefby, Dr. Donald Monro, Dr. Ca- dogan. Dr. Knox, Dr. George Monro, Dr. Robert Miller, Dr. Turner, Dr. John Armllrong, Dr. Huck Saunders, and Dr. Kennedy. • Of thefe, feveral were fellows of the college of phyficians (as was the cafe of thofe in the former war] and I have reafon to believe](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21928526_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
