An address to the officers of His Majesty's Navy / By an old naval surgeon.

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[1824]
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Credit: An address to the officers of His Majesty's Navy / By an old naval surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tentions of the Author, who evidently is not a naval man. To officers of all ranks in the navy, I would now appeal, who can, by the power that is vested in them—by their influence in their different grades—and by their example, (especially those of junior rank, whose situation brings them in closer contact with the fore-mast men) do much to effect a reformation in a system which every thinking man must deplore. If any thing 1 may bring forward should unintentionally of- fend, my motive (the good of the service to which I have the honor to belong) will, I trust, secure for mea patient and indulgent hearing from every candid person ; and if my suggestions are inconclusive and unsatisfactory, I leave them to be modified and improved by officers of greater talent and superior judgment. I have always been of opinion, that the Naval Medical Officer should not confine his duty merely to the cure of actual disease on board his ship; but that he ought also, as far as it may lie