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

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

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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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. * ; ' ■ 1 ' Letter from the Surgeon-General to the Memlers of the late Special Medical Hoard. “ GeNTL£MF-n> -Albany, July Id, 1803. “ When Preparing for the press that part of my late publication, which relates to your proceedings as a Board at the Isle of W.ght, m Dec. 180J, I f„llnd am other papers a memorandum (the original of which recollected to have seen in the hand-writing of Dr. Hunter), stating the hours of your land- ing on, and departure*from, the Isle ofWieht by which it seems thatyou had passed only twenty seven hours on the island; and I found another memorandum, made on what I considered as good authority, from which it appeared that you «d been only ‘ about three hours employ^ in examining what related to the hospital' there,