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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    debut of medical men into the army, of whatever clafs they may be, ought, for the good of the fervice, to commence in a lower rank than that of a fiaf} appointment. Such is the principle of Mr. Hunter and of the prefent chiefs of the medical department of the army, as influencing the feledion of medical officers of the higher clafs. It is at direft vari- ance. The public will form its own opinion, whether experience, or the authority of a college be of mofl: value in the cure of difeafe. It is the objea of this work to place the queftion fairly before the eye of the public; for it is of im- portance that a corred opinion be formed upon the fubjed. The health of thefoldier, in all its extent, is Duty of the an objea of care to the medical chief of an chie^' army, who confequently muft be fuppofed to be competent to underftand it in all its fteps, and to judge of it in all its conditions,—from the firPc approaches of difeafe, to the time of perfed recovery and difmiffion to the duties of the field or garrifon. The fubjed comprehends various information, but it is only one in its end and defign. It admits the organizing operation of .one mmd only, for there is only one effed to be attamed; and, whatever contributes to the attamment of that effed, whether of a medical or economical nature, muft neceffarily be under one diredion. There is only one military chief in an army; there can only be one chief in an ^^ofpital, and he muft be a medical one^ for health