J R Army Med Corps: first published as 10.1136/jramc-71-05-11 on 1 November 1938. Downloaded from Corresponden ce 357 It is obvious that a complete solution to the problem of mechanization and its effects on our Corps present many difficulties. As regards the one dressing station being unorthodox. fJ.'he 'answer is partially given by the reference to the 1st and 5th Armies; also, if nothing new was ever attempted, there would have been, for instance, no re-organization or mechanization of our Army. Tanglin, I am, etc., Singapore, R. G. ATKINS, August 28, 1938. Lieut.-Colonel, B.A .M.C. THE MEDICAL SRRVICES DURING THE SEVEN YEARS WAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE" JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS." by guest. Protected copyright. DEAR SIR,-In reading an interesting article by Lieutenant-Colonel Kempthorne on the medical services during the Seven Years War, I have come across a somewhat inaccurate statement about Dr. Donald. Monro. In speaking of Donald Monro's "observations on the means of preserving the health of soldiers" Colonel Kempthorne says :- .. The author was the son of John Monro who had served as a . surgeon in the Army of William Ill, and later, when Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh, lent his help to the wounded after the battle of Preston Pans. His grandfather, Sir Alexander Monro, fought on the King's side at the battle of Worcester." John Monro was not the father of Donald but the grandfather. John Monro's only son, Alexander Monro primus was the person. who became the first Professor of Anatomy'in Edinburgh, and, as Colonel Kempthorne says, lent his help to the wounded after the battle of Preston Pans, and Donald Monro was his second son. Sir Alexander Monro, who fought http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/ at the battle of Worcester, was not Donald's grandfather, but his great grandfather. University of Otago, I am, etc., Dunedin, N.Z. W. J. MULLIN, Beptember 27, 1938. Librarian, Otago Medical School . .. on October 1, 2021.