Remarks on the constitution of the medical department of the British Army : with a detail of hospital management, and an appendix, attempting to explain the action of causes in producing fever and the operation of remedies in effecting cure / by Robert Jackson M.D.

  • Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Remarks on the constitution of the medical department of the British Army : with a detail of hospital management, and an appendix, attempting to explain the action of causes in producing fever and the operation of remedies in effecting cure / by Robert Jackson M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ftaff fur geons ( 26 ) Seie£iion of Further, as it was the cuftom, in the Britifh ftaff fiir_ fervice in pad times, to promote furgeons or re- giments to be furgeons of hofpitals, fo in the new regulations, it is profelTed to be the inten- tion to feleft, where attainable, the furgeons of army hofpitals from the members of the corpo- ration of furgeons of London, —pupils of the London hofpitals. The meafure is lefs objec tionable, becaufe lefs important, than that which relates to the feleftion of phyficians, but it fcarcely can be confidered as an improvement. It will not have the effeft of bringing furgeons of experience into the fervice; for the emolu- ment is too fmall to allure men of acknowledged and known ability. The London hofpitals, it is admitted, prefent a wide field of obfervation for furgical pupils j and thefe pupils are alfo ac- knowledged, in many cafes, to prove themfelves to be correa anatomifts and expert operators. In the bufinefs of operating, and in dreffing wounds and ulcers, they have not perhaps fu- periors in any country; but in the arrangement and management of hofpitals, a duty which rnuft, on fome ''occafions, fall to the lot of ftaff fur- geons, they can have no claim to preference ; for education has given them no advantages. It ynay indeed be faid, without implying a cenfure, that the furgeon's duty, in military hofpitals, or in the field with armies, is too extenfive and too complicated to be well underflood and well executed by pcrfons, who have had no previous experience in a narrower circle; and that the