Born on August 2nd, 1776. He entered the Army as a Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment, on October 17th, 1795, and was gazetted Surgeon to the 8th West India Regiment on June 25th, 1798. He was transferred to the 1st Battalion of the 1st Foot on March 29th, 1801, and was appointed Surgeon to the Garrison of Grenada on July 19th, 1804. During twenty years' service in most of the West Indian Colonies he made a special study of yellow fever. He joined the Staff on April 6th, 1809, was put on half pay on November 25th, 1815, and returned to England probably in 1818. He practised at 17 Wigmore Street, and devoted part of his leisure to his yellow fever inquiry. He found that angry controversialists might be divided into two main camps: those who traced yellow fever to 'marsh miasmata', and those who traced it to 'animal contagion' and believed it to have been introduced into the West Indies from abroad. His own view was that the fever was inflammatory endemic, and that it attacked plethoric young strangers from temperate climates. No word is said of the bite of the mosquito in his whole review of the subject. He died on May 31st, 1855. Publications: *Remarks on Burns and Scalds, chiefly in reference to the Principle of Treatment at the Time of their Infliction : suggested by a Perusal of an Essay on Burns by Edward Kentish, M.D.*, 8vo, London, 1818. *Observations on the Inflammatory Endemic, incidental to Strangers in the West Indies from Temperate Climates, commonly called the Yellow Fever*, as this disease occurred to the author during a public service of twenty years in a majority of the West Indies Colonies, with notes and illustrations, to which is added an appendix containing abstracts of Official Reports upon West India fevers, addressed to the Head of the Army Medical Department, 8vo, London, 1819.