BIB_ID
103174
Accession number
MA 1266.39
Creator
Henderson, Stewart, -1812.
Display Date
1799.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Volume 9 (MA 1266) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1266.1-61).
With a 2 page pamphlet titled "Practical Remarks on the Diseases which occurred on Board of His Majesty's Ship Astrea, on the Jamaica Station, during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789, and Part of 1790: by Stewart Henderson, formerly a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, now of the Army Hospital Staff."
With a 2 page pamphlet titled "Practical Remarks on the Diseases which occurred on Board of His Majesty's Ship Astrea, on the Jamaica Station, during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789, and Part of 1790: by Stewart Henderson, formerly a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, now of the Army Hospital Staff."
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning the need for Military Hospitals; including an extract from a letter written by Thomas Keate (1745-1821), a British Army surgeon, contradicting Dr. Stewart Henderson's assertion that there is a need for Military Hospitals; beneath the extract of Keate's letter, Dr. Henderson has written "If the health of an Army could uniformly be secured there certainly would be no occasion for an Hospital on this, or any other scale - but as we find from long experience, that it is not allways in our power to prevent sickness among Troops, And that it will break out in spite of every human precaution, with all due deference to Mr. Keates high rank, and abilities, I humbly conceive, that even in the most healthy climates where Troops are stationed, an Hospital should be constructed on a proper principle to prevent the fatal effects that will necessarily ensue from the one, which was severely felt at the Cape of Good Hope - When considerable Sickness raged among the British Troops for sometime after the capture of that Colony in 1795 - low Store houses being converted into what were denominated Hospitals."
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