. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. to Hospital, after having held it twenty fruits of his observations during that period hegave to the world in a dissertation On the Com-parative Prevalence and Mortality of different Diseasesin London, which was first pubUshed in the Trans-actions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, and after-wards embodied in his Select Dissertations. Theunhappy Walcheren expedition was one of the lastpublic services on which Blane was island of fogs, swamps, and pestilential vapourshad loomed so alluringly in the eyes of our s
. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. to Hospital, after having held it twenty fruits of his observations during that period hegave to the world in a dissertation On the Com-parative Prevalence and Mortality of different Diseasesin London, which was first pubUshed in the Trans-actions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, and after-wards embodied in his Select Dissertations. Theunhappy Walcheren expedition was one of the lastpublic services on which Blane was island of fogs, swamps, and pestilential vapourshad loomed so alluringly in the eyes of our states-men, that nothing short of its possession wouldsatisfy them, and one of the largest armaments thathad ever left a British port, conveying 40,000soldiers, was sent to achieve its conquest. It wassoon won and occupied; but our troops found, onentering into possession, that a deadher enemy thanany that France could furnish was arrayed againstthem to dispute their footing; so that, independentlyof the fearful amount of mortality, 10,000 brave. En^^;»^3 ty ■* H<T»i; iHi II; tu [ (ij* is; FIRST PEmOlPAL OF KINGS COLLEGE. ABERDEENFROM THE ORIOOJAL PADITIIIOIN THAI OOIiEGE, SIR GILBERT BLANK ^HECTOR BOECE. 153 soldiers were soon upon the sick list. As for thedisease, too, which produced such havoc, althoughit was sometimes called fever, and sometimes ague,neither its nature, causes, nor cure, could be satis-factorily ascertained. All this, however, it was ne-cessary to detect, if our hold was to be continuedupon Walcheren; and the chief medical officers ofthe army were ordered to repair in person to theisland, and there hold an inquest upon the malady,with a view to its removal. But no medical Curtiuscould be found to throw himself into such a gulf:the surgeon-general of the army declared that thecase was not surgical, and ought therefore to besuperintended by the physician-general; while thelatter as stoutly argued, that the duty indisputablybelonged not to him, but to th
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