A letter to George Renny ... on the feigned diseases of soldiers / by John Cheyne.

Date:
1826
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Credit: A letter to George Renny ... on the feigned diseases of soldiers / by John Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    LETTER, fyc. Sfc. Sir, Having been in charge of sick soldiers during the greater part of my professional life, first in the Ordnance Department, to which I was at- tached for nearly fifteen years, and more recently in the General Hospital in the Phcenix Park, for upwards of seven years, I have had extensive opportunities of acquiring a knowledge of their characters and habits. Of late I have paid con- siderable attention to the conduct of malingerers, as those individuals who simulate or produce dis- ease to evade duty, are called in the military hospital. I have also had many opportunities of communicating with army medical officers on the subject of malingering, and thereby ascertaining their methods of abating this, which, in many corps, is an intolerable nuisance. And having in these methods observed much discrepancy, and