The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
in his power to remedy. That there were no complaints of the sick suffering in the General Hospital under their care, but that the uneasiness that arose was concerning the care and provision of those who were retained in their regiments, and not reported to the General Hospital. That they have been witnesses to his constant application and attention to the duties of his station, in which his diligence, assiduity, care of, and humanity towards the sick and wounded were abundantly evident. That the principal causes of the sufferings of the sick the last campaign, proceeded from the regimental sick not being properly reported to the General Hospital, and in some instances to the unavoidable scarcity of particular medicines and other stores, which could not be procured at all times in sufficient quantities, and not, so far as ever came under their notice, to any want of care and attention in the Director-General, but principally from the repeated movements of the army, which exposed the sick and wounded to sufferings that could in no way be remedied, and are firmly of opinion that no person whatever acting in the capacity of Director-General under the same circumstances, could possibly have given universal satisfaction."
The complaints against the Director-General, as before
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