A letter to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry; explaining the true constitution of a medical staff, the best form of economy for hospitals, etc. With a refutation of ... a letter by Dr. Bancroft, army physician, dated April 28, 1808 / [Robert Jackson].

  • Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.
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[1808]
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Credit: A letter to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry; explaining the true constitution of a medical staff, the best form of economy for hospitals, etc. With a refutation of ... a letter by Dr. Bancroft, army physician, dated April 28, 1808 / [Robert Jackson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    £ in yoi!hr estimation M^hich Dr. Bancroft asserts you assign to me ; nor can I permit myself to think that you are so incompetent for your duty, or so unworthy of your trust that you read my book and adopted my opinions without having certified yourselves of their truth by proper \ evidence. You are to observe, and the Dr. may do the same, that there are points in my works which I state positively to be matters of fact. These were verified by my own experi¬ ence, and I maintain them to be true in the face of the world! There are others which are only presumptive—-I believe them to be equally true; but I had not authority to call for the official documents which would have rendered their truth demonstrative.—The situation in which you, as Commissioners, have been offi¬ cially placed, gives you advantages on that head, which, as a simple individual, I could not attain. But admitting, for the sake of ar¬ gument, that 1 have not been sufficiently precise and accurate on some points of the subject of your enquiry, and taking it for granted that you are guided by my notions in framing your re¬ port, it is not to be wondered at that you erred in your course, as you are supposed to speak . '—root' from your own knowledge.