Covers the period from the accession of George II in 1727 to the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898. Reprinted 1968, together with the complementary List of commissioned medical officers of the Army, Charles II to accession of George II, 1660 to 1727, by Alfred Peterkin, Aberdeen, University Press, 1925, as vol. 1 of Commissioned officers in the medical services of the British Army 1660-1960, ed. by Sir Robert Drew. London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1968. Vol. 2 covers the period 1898-1960.