A. Keogh to W. O.
16 Oct. 1916.
War Office.
Private.
My dear Osler,
Your letter is the first intimation of the recall of Jones which I have had. Bruce must be a thick-skinned person. The fact that he had reported badly on Jones should have prevented his stepping into his shoes. Why do medical men hang onto the coat-tails of the laity? Are not the days of "patrons" for literary and scientific men yet over?
You'd be surprised if he saw the number of letters, passed it to me, written by medical man impressing perfectly obvious things upon the former. As if they were new discoveries, and yet learned from conversations with my staff or on our Committees. These things make me despair.
Yours sincerely,
Alfred Keogh.