Ml.MOl!! OF 1)U WRIGHT. ^ ] ().') 



litia indeed was numerous, but in a miserable state of 

 discipline, and they had never seen a musket fired in 

 anger by an enemy. In such circumstances the re- 

 turn of Sir Ralph Abercrombik was looked for with 

 much anxiety. 



The command of the armament had now devolved on 

 General Graham, who, in the month of October, re- 

 moved the head quarters and the general hospital to 

 Martinique, leaving Dr Wright, as formerly, in 

 charge of the military hospitals of Barbadoes. At 

 this period the number on the sick list was very con- 

 siderable ; but the diseases of tropical regions are, in 

 general, too acute to be of long duration, so that in a 

 short time he was enabled to send a staff surgeon, 

 with twenty hospital-mates, to head quarters. 



In reasoning on the subject of the remitting fever, 

 which had been so fatal to the armament, Dr Wright, 

 in a letter to Dr Garthshore of the 5th December 

 1796, appears to regard it as analogous, or rather 

 identical, with the autumnal fevers and dysenteries of 

 England ; and he mentions, in the strongest terms, 

 the advantages which he found to result from the li- 

 beral use of calomel in this disorder. 



" I must now," he continues, " advert to your last 

 letter, which is a complete analysis of Mr Paterson's 

 book on Sea Scurvy, and of Mr Douglas Whytt's 

 papers. 



" ; Mr Paterson's Acetum nitrosum in sea scur- 

 vy I believe to be new, and if it answer the purposes 

 of the benevolent author, he deserves the thanks of 

 his country. Hitherto I have been at no loss for a 



