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The case of our army medical officers is a striking instance of the disposition to deny even titular distinctions to the medical profession. Thevexata questio of relative rank is too well known to need explanation. The education of the military medical officer entitles him to consideration. The average health of the army has been increased, and its mortality lessened by his means. In positions of extreme danger, he has exhibited heroism not surpassed by any branch of the Service. And yet a paltry, petty jealousy is able to deny him the status which justice and common sense would award as his right. Why should not the Army Medical Service be a Royal Service as well as the Engineers ? In every respect the Medical Service ia entitled to that honour. It is a special department, as honourable as the Engineers, and, like them, requiring a special educational ordeal. The interests of the Service would be served by attracting eligible candidates, and obviating the recurrence of such another dead-lock as was seen when aspirants were deterred, not long ago, from coming forward, through disgust and indignation at the treatment which army medical officers received from military authorities, and thus was the Service left shorthanded.
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Johnson, Z. The place of scientific medicine among the sciences. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science 90, 495–502 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02964810
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02964810