A letter to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry : containing animadversions on some parts of their fifth report ; and an examination of the principles on which the medical department of armies ought to be formed / by Edward Nathaniel Bancroft.

Date:
1808
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    hofpitals; and you may probably be furprized to learn by the teftimony of Dr. M‘Gregor himfelf (given on another occafion, when he had no particular purpofe in view to bias his teftimony}, that there was in reality no room or foundation for any fuch comparifon as is here ftated, and that, if there had been any, it could not have fallen under Dr. M'Gregor’s obfervation, as you have naturally been led to fuppofe, becaufe he was not then in Grenada. In the year 1804, Dr. M‘Gregor publifhed a fmall volume under the title of “ Medical Sketches of the Expedition to Egypt Irom India. Printed for John Murray, 32, Fleet ftreet,’* &c. From this work it ap- pears that the 88th, or Dr. M'Gregor’s regiment .which made part of the army employed under the comman4 of Sir Ralph Abercrombie in the conqueft of St. Lucia during the month of May 1796, was fent with others about the beginning of June to Grenada,whereit arriv- ed in two or three days, and was employed in the re- duction of that ifland. According to hispofitive ftate- ment, “ The 88th regiment continued pretty healthy at Grenada for three months after their arrival there f (i. e. until the month of September) “ or as long as they remained to the windward fide of the ijland.'* “ This,*’ he adds, was likewife the cafe with the loth, 25th, and other regiments. It was only after our return to St. George*s and to Richmond Hill, after we had communication with the 68th regiment and the general hofpitals, where the yellow' fever had for many months prevailed, that it appeared in the 88th and other corps.*’ See p 227. Now it is well known that, the windward or eafern parts of the iflands in the Weft Indies are generally the mojl heulthyy and Dr. M‘Gre- gor, in the work before us, naturally and juftlyafcribed