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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    Downing Street, that two thirds of the means provided for the uses of the army employed on foreign service, especially during the course of the late war, was positively superfluous, as exceed- ing the just wants of the occasions,—the proofs incontrovertible. As Mr. Pitt did not deign to acknowledge the receipt of the letter, even by one of his under-secretaries, the author, left with- out any official instruction respecting the most eligible mode of applying the fruits of his labours to the public benefit, felt himself under the ne- cessity of putting his manuscript into the hands of a printer; for, with the conviction that two thirds, even with the conviction that one third of the means prepared for the use of the medical department of the British army, might actually be saved to the state, he would have deemed himself culpable to the nation had he withheld his communication. Such is the cause of publication; and if the mode adopted be not the best that existed of rendering the informations useful, it is to be re- membered that it is the only one which was left in the author’s choice. The work would not