A system of arrangement and discipline, for the medical department of armies / by Robert Jackson, M.D.

  • Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.
Date:
1805
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Credit: A system of arrangement and discipline, for the medical department of armies / by Robert Jackson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    for the subjects of his care are rarely ungrateful. If he manifest kindness, and evince knowledge, he seldom fails of obtaining the regard and com- manding the respect of his patient; but his qua- lities must be real, not fictitious : the heart must be warm with charity, the mind firm in knowledge; for no class of men are more dexterous in probing the rotten parts of the heart, or in unmasking the weak mind of their superiors than the mass of common soldiers. fc I l , 11 — * f . I have spoken freely, for I consider myself as addressing the junior class of the medical officers of the British army, persons who have almost every thing to learn which relates to military life. On that ground I shall not, I trust, be accused of presumption. 1 am now a veteran in I years, and not young in service; and, as I have wandered over various countries in the course of my life silently pursuing my own purpose, which was the investigation of the physical condition and moral character of man, it may be reasonably ex- pected that, with much desire of obtaining in- formation, though cndowred with no uncommon