or by Working the Ventilators.

4. If the Infection be very strong, to take a Glass of the spirituous
Tincture of the Bark just before they go into the Hospital.

5. To put small Rolls of Lint, dipped in camphorated Spirits, up the
Nostrils, and to direct a Vessel, with warm camphorated Vinegar, to be
carried round, and held near the Patients they are examining.

6. In examining Patients affected with the Petechial Fever, or any
other malignant Distempers, to stand at some little Distance, and ask
what Questions they may think proper; and when they come near, to feel
the Pulse, and examine the Skin, not to inspire while their Head is
near the Patient's Body; but after being fully satisfied in these
Points, to retire a little, and ask what other Questions may be
necessary.

It would be right to establish some military Rank for every
commissioned Officer of the Hospital on Service, and to settle the
same Subordination in the physical as in the military Department. By
these Means, the Service would be carried on with greater Order, and
more Advantage to the Sick.

And it would be right, in Times of War, to add a Clause in the Mutiny
Bill to allow any military Officer on convalescent Duty to call in the
commissioned physical Officers to assist in making up a Court-Martial,
when there are not a sufficient Number of military Officers in a
Place, to try convalescent Soldiers guilty of Crimes. For in Times of
Service, very often a sufficient Number of military Officers cannot be
spared to be on Duty at the different Military Hospitals; and at all
such Places the Convalescents are generally very disorderly, when they
know that there is not a sufficient Number of Officers to form a
Court-Martial for punishing them. Where-ever there are a sufficient
Number of military Officers, no physical Officer ought ever to be
called upon as a Member of a Court-Martial.

Men, in Time of Service, are often apt to saunter in and about
Hospitals, and there learn all Manner of Debaucheries, and lose all
Sense of Discipline; and therefore, to keep up Order and Decorum,
there ought to be, at every Fixed and every large Military Hospital, a
military Inspector or Commander, an Officer of known Activity and
Probity; and a Number of Officers on convalescent Duty sufficient to
form a Court-Martial whenever required.

The Duty of the Military Inspector, or Commander, should be, to take
Care of all Convalescents on Billet; to see that the Officers