Afterwards, although frequent were the insinuations that we transgressed the above maxim, no evidence of the fact was ever obtained, except the following, which is given _verbatim_ and _literatim_, as “put into Court” by a First Class Staff-Surgeon, in charge of one of the divisions of the Barrack Hospital, Scutari. He alleged “that the Nurses were in the habit of giving diets without leave;” and when pressed for the facts, produced the annexed statement in “W. J. Northcott’s” handwriting. “2447. Pte. John M‘Cormick, L. T. Corps, age twenty, 11 Company, admitted into 6 Ward, F. Corridor. Admitted with Febris C. C., April 30th, 1856. On or about the 10th of May I was confined in the Garrison Cells, Scutari, for allowing food and drink to be brought to this Patient, by one of Miss Nightingale’s Nurses; and at the time it was brought I were on duty at the Victoria Barracks, Scutari, three-quarters of a mile from the Hospital, and never saw the Nurse, food, or drink that was administerd to the above-named Patient, and I never saw the docter that ordered me to be confind. I was confind by order of 1st Class Staff-Surgeon Prendergast. About two and a half hours after I were aquanted with the case. “(Signed) 173. W. J. NORTHCOTT, “A.W.M., M S.C.” III. [Sidenote: 1. Lay down distinctly the communication which is to take place between Director-General and Superintendent-General, and (in war and abroad) Principal Medical Officer and Superintendent-General, and the qualified subordination of the latter.]