Memoirs of Portugal, historical and medical / [William Thomas].

  • Thomas, William
Date:
1819
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Credit: Memoirs of Portugal, historical and medical / [William Thomas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Medical Staff who were waiting Marshal Beresford’s order, were, not without, hopes that Lord Wellington’s conferences might lead to some arrangement respecting their destination, and they were not disappointed, for soon after his Lordship’s departure from Lisbon, the Marshal issued his order, which appointed them stations to the several brigades and regiments which were dispersed in cantonments up the country; and had been for some months successfully disciplined under the British officers which had been attached to them, but of whom little information had been obtained ; except now and then by an officer, who occasionally came down to Lisbon for a short period, who gave us to understand that our ser- vices would be very acceptable, and was, every where amongst them, much wanted ; their hospi- tals being in a most deplorable state. | As yet no Inspector had arrived, though he had been expected, and, in all probability, had been impatiently waited for, from the time we landed. These orders contained no other information than the different cantonments we were to proceed to 5 it was, therefore, taken for granted, that each individual on his station, was to proceed accord- ing to his judgment, and to suggest such arrange-