the
Accounts, Contracts, or any other Money Affairs relating to the
Hospital; and if ever they be found to intermeddle in these Affairs,
they ought to be immediately dismissed the Service.

The purveying or commissariate Branch ought to be entirely distinct
from the physical. The Purveyors or Commissaries ought punctually to
obey whatever Orders they receive from the Physicians or Surgeons; to
provide every Thing for the Hospital; to keep regular Accounts of all
the Men who come into, or go out of the Hospitals; and from Time to
Time to make Returns to Head Quarters of all the Men in Hospitals; and
their Accounts ought to be controuled by such Persons as the
Government may think proper.

Every Physician and Surgeon of a Military Hospital ought to visit the
Sick at regular stated Hours, and the Mates to attend and go round
with them, and receive and execute their Orders.

Every Mate ought to have a certain Number of Patients allotted him,
for whom he is to make up all Medicines, dress all Sores, and execute
whatever Orders he receives from the Physician, Surgeon, or
Apothecary. That the Mates may know and execute their Duty, proper
Orders in Writing should be hung up in the Apothecaries Shop for that
Purpose. The following are those which I gave out at all the Hospitals
I attended in _Germany_.

_Orders for the Mates._

1. That all the Gentlemen do attend at the Apothecaries Shop every
Morning at eight o'Clock, to assist in making up the common Medicines
of the Day, and afterwards to go round the Hospitals with the
Physicians and Surgeons.

2. That every Mate have a Book for writing the Prescriptions of the
Physicians in, which is to be kept in the following Order.--First, to
mark the Patient's Name and Regiment; then the Day of his Entry into
the Hospital and his Disorder; then the Prescriptions of the
Physician; and after all the Day of his Discharge, or of his Death.
_Ex. gr._

_John Clarke_, 20th Regiment. _Jan._ 1. Fever.

_Jan._ 1. V. S. unc. x.--H. salin. cum pulv. contrayerv.
4r. die.--2. Emplast. vesicat. dorso, &c.

Discharged or dead _Jan._ 28.

3. That every Mate make up himself the Physician's Prescriptions for
his own Patients, and afterwards go round and administer them, or give
them to his Patients with proper Directions; that he bleed his own
Patients, and dress any slight Sores they may have, which do not
require their being sent to the Surgery Hospital.

4. That