Volume 1

The duties of a regimental surgeon considered : with observations on his general qualifications, and hints relative to a more respectable practice.

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1721-1793.
Date:
1787
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Credit: The duties of a regimental surgeon considered : with observations on his general qualifications, and hints relative to a more respectable practice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ful and laudable purpofes, and are not to be regretted : others lefs fo, and Ihould not exift.* The furgeon and mate are exempted from all duty, as it is called, in the army; fuch as mounting guard, attending court- martials, and fuch like; their charge alone being confined to the fick. They rank as ftaff-officers, and are confidered as an ap- pendage to the corps. In the line of aftual fubordination the furgeon ranks not only below the youngeft enfign, but the quarter- mafter and adjutant; and the mate again below the furgeon. The furgeon receives a commifiion figned by the fecretary at war, or, if abroad, by the commander in chief there, who has autho- rity to grant it; the mate only a warrant figned by the colonel of the regiment into which he is about to enter. This fubjedts him * I mean here the fees of clerks beyond their juft poundage.