Recommending Thomas Reynolds as a Naval Surgeon

The son of Mr. Reynolds has studied medicine for several years and has been in practice in Matthews, Virginia. He wishes to go into the Navy as a surgeon and can be recommended as a young man of excellent character and attentiveness to his profession who is desirous of improving himself by the opportunities such a birth would afford him by seeing much practice and attending the effects of climate on human health. If all the frigates have surgeons, he wishes a place on one of the ships to be purchased.