Charles Webster – St. Vincent Doctor in 1795

WEBSTER, Charles ((05 December 1795))

Dr. Charles WEBSTER, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and one of the physicians to the army. Dr. WEBSTER obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1777;…………..he went out to the West Indies as physician to the army. But not long after his arrival at the island of St. Vincent’s, where he devoted a great part of his time to hospital-duty, he was seized with the yellow fever; and, after a few days illness, fell victim to the disease, on the 5th of December 1795.

SOURCE: Annals of medicine, for the year 1796. … By Andrew Duncan, Sen. M.D. and Andrew Duncan, Jun. M.D. … Vol. I. 2nd edition. Edinburgh, 1799. 475pp. Vol. 1 of 1. Page 421- 422.