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 General Hospital were much talked of previous to Dr. Morgan's appointment, and it had been his first care to look into and correct them.

At the breaking out of the war it must be remembered, along with some of liberal manners and education, and of the best abilities, a number of unlettered and very incompetent medical officers found their way into the army. Many of those first commissioned were never educated to the profession, and were to the last degree ignorant, factious, and turbulent, averse to all subordination and order, and, as is stated by the highest authority, that of Washington, "a disgrace to the profession, the army, and to society."