"The other, they could see for themselves, was the Portsmouth medical man Lieutenant Shairp had called in when Alexander first arrived."
"I have exposed Daniel Harson for the Dissenting minister he once was, and John Powell for the medical man on a slaver he once was."
"No clothes were allowed, no medical man attended those who were incarcerated, and a chaplain never entered there, while the prison itself was destitute of any airing-yard."