The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
the attention of Congress to this matter as a serious subject, stating that he must "not be blamed for the impossibility of collecting them," and predicting, too truly, those calamities to the army, if not furnished with them, which afterwards appeared and swept thousands to them graves. Fresh discontent now showed itself, and unjust complaints from this cause, as well as from those before mentioned, again arose, in which enemies, whom he afterwards proved to have been guilty of fraud and peculation, joined. These complaints at last reached the halls of Congress, and were there listened to by some, though no charge was made of his neglect of duty, want of capacity, inattention, or any breach of the resolves of Congress or of general orders.
At about this juncture he was directed by Congress to provide and superintend a hospital at a proper distance from the camp, for the army posted on the east side of Hudson's River, while the director of the flying camp, which had been formed for the protection of New Jersey, was ordered to provide and superintend a similar one for the men on the west side of that river, and to report, not through the Director-General as had been previously ordered by a resolve of July 17th, but to the Congress itself. At this, Dr. Morgan took
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