No Person ought to be appointed a Physician to the Army, or Military
Hospitals, without previously undergoing the same Examination at the
College of Physicians, as those do who enter Fellows and Licentiates
of the College, that none but proper Persons may be employed. On such
Examinations the Physician General to the Army ought to be allowed to
sit as one of the Censors of the College.

The Surgeons are all obliged to pass an Examination at Surgeons Hall
before they are appointed, and the Apothecaries ought in like Manner
to pass an Examination at Apothecaries Hall.

The Mates employed in the Service ought, previous to their
Appointment, to be examined both in Surgery and Pharmacy, as the
Service commonly requires their acting in both Branches.

The Direction of all Military Hospitals ought always to be committed
to the Physicians, who have the immediate Care of Hospitals.

When an Army is acting on a Continent, and there is a Number of
Hospitals in different Places, the Physician who attends the Commander
in Chief ought to be made Physician General and Director of the
Hospitals, with proper Appointments; and all Orders from Head Quarters
ought to go immediately thro' this Channel.

Every other Physician at the different Hospitals ought to direct every
Thing about the Hospital which he attends, and his Orders ought to be
punctually obeyed; and he ought to keep up a constant Correspondence
with the Physician General; acquainting him from Time to Time with the
State of the Hospital, and what is wanted for it; and he ought
punctually to obey whatever Orders he receives from the Physician
General.

If there be separate Hospitals for the Surgery Patients, the eldest
Surgeon ought to direct every Thing in the Hospital he attends; and
when any Thing is wanted for his Hospital, to report the same to the
Physician General.

The directing and purveying Branches ought never to be entrusted to
the same Person, as the Temptation of accumulating Wealth has at all
Times, and in all Services, given Rise to the grossest Abuses, which
have been a great Detriment to the Service, as well as to the poor
wounded and sick Soldiers, and has occasioned the Loss of many Lives.
And therefore neither the Physician General, nor any of the Physicians
or Surgeons of the Army, or any other Person concerned in the
Direction of the Military Hospitals, ought ever to act as Purveyor or
Commissary; nor ought they ever to have any Thing to do with