A short account of the Royal Artillery Hospital at Woolwich : with some observations on the management of artillery soldiers, respecting the preservation of health addressed to the officers of the Regiment, and dedicated to the Master-General and Board of Ordnance / by John Rollo.

  • Rollo, John, -1809.
Date:
1801
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Credit: A short account of the Royal Artillery Hospital at Woolwich : with some observations on the management of artillery soldiers, respecting the preservation of health addressed to the officers of the Regiment, and dedicated to the Master-General and Board of Ordnance / by John Rollo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tvithout his diligence and attention to the Surgeon’s of’* ders, the beft medical efforts may prove abortive, it iS ex-, peeled that the Surgeon of the Regiment will be ex- tremely cautious how he approves of a perfon recom- mended to this duty, and that he will previoufly enquire ^ into his charafter, and llriftly examine his abilities fot this undertaking. This Non-commiffioned Officer fhould be exempted from all other duties, and entirely attached to the Hofpital. In every Regimental Hofpital, a room fhould be ap- propriated to the accommodation df fuch convalefcents, / whofe ftate of health will admit of their being placed on full diet. This Hofpital to be regularly vifited by the Surgeon once, twice, or oftener in the day, as circum- llances may require. % It is particularly ordered, that none of the Hofpital Tables and Orders, which are to be hung up in a confpi- cuous place in every Regimental Hofpital, fhall be de- faced by any perfon whatever, nor taken down, but by the Surgeon, or Sergeant, the latter of whom will explain the allowance ordered for thofe patients who are not themfelves in a fituation to read the table for the diftribu- tion of diet.