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The latter part of the year found him again at Stockton, publishing a work on contagious and endemic fevers, 'more especially the contagious fever of ships, jails, and hospitals, vulgarly called the yellow-fever of the West Indies; together with 'an explanation of military discipline and economy, with a scheme for the medical arrangements of armies. He undertook, about this time, by desire of Count Woronzow, the Russian ambassador, the medical charge of seventeen hundred Russian soldiers, who were stationed in the Channel Islands in a sad state of disease and disorganization; and so admirably did he acquit himself, and so perfect were the hospital provisions he made, that the commander-in-chief nominated him physician and head of the army-hospital depôt at Chatham as he says, 'without any application or knowledge on his part. This appointment was the cause of his subsequent misfortunes.
We drove back to the town. No message. After dinner still no message. Dr. Cuyler, Chief Army-Hospital Inspector, is in town, they say. Let us hunt him up, perhaps he can help us. We found him at the Jones House.
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