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The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Medical staff of the army. (search)
The Medical staff of the army.
--The following is the copy of a letter writer by an aid decamp of President Davis to a prominent physician of Macon county, Ala., and will explain itself:
Richmond, Sept. 1, 1862. Dear Sir.
--I am directed by the President to inform you that your letter of August 21, 1862, is received, and the suggestions in it considered.
Your strictures on the management of the medical staff of the army are perhaps severe, but not uncalled for. Many incompetent men have doubtless been appointed surgeons, but where is a competent surgeon or physician whose services have been rejected?
The trouble is partly owing to the insufficient supply of medical and surgical skill in the country for an army of the size of that in the field.
If, however, instead of a general censure, you would take the pains to single out and fix on any one or more surgeons the charges you make against them all, the public service would be subserved thereby.--If persons, who are