MEMOIR OP DK U'lilCIIT. ..J Of) 



general order arrived most opportunely from England, 

 for the reduction of the medical staff on the West 

 India station, which enahled Dr Wright to retire 

 from the service, without subjecting his friends at 

 home to the necessity of incurring any new obliga- 

 tion. 



Preparatory to his proposed departure from Barba- 

 dos on this occasion, Dr Wright prepared an offi- 

 cial report, for the use of the Army Medical Board, 

 on the subject of the most prevalent diseases among 

 the European troops in the West Indies, and detailing 

 the mode of treatment which had been pursued in the 

 various hospitals under his charge. This report was 

 very favourably received by the gentlemen of the fa- 

 culty, throughout our West India possessions. It was 

 reprinted in most of the periodical publications of the 

 period, and was soon afterwards translated into several 

 of the continental languages. 



Dr Wright embarked at Barbadoes, on the 26th 

 of April 1798, on board the ship Barton for Liverpool, 

 where he arrived early in June, after narrowly escaping 

 capture by Le Tigre French frigate off the coast of 

 Ireland. 



At Liverpool, Dr Wright formed a personal ac- 

 quaintance with Dr Citrrie, for which they had been 

 mutually prepared by their previous publications on 

 professional subjects, and more especially by the simi- 

 larity of their views, regarding the beneficial effects of 

 the use of water as a remedy in fever, and other dis- 

 eases. The great work of Dr Currie on this subject 

 had appeared only a few months before, most appro- 



