The Story of Our Services Under the Crown: A Historical Sketch of the Army Medical StaffBaillière, Tindall and Cox, 1879 - 192 oldal |
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56. oldal - ... are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them ? ' You must get men of a spirit...
178. oldal - Proceeded with the first troops of the Eastern Army to Gallipoli as principal Medical Officer; was in Medical Charge of the Light Division of the Eastern Army from its first taking the field throughout the campaign of 1854-55, until the Division left the...
55. oldal - Essex's army; and though they be rebels, and deserve the punishment of traitors, yet out of our tender compassion upon them as being our subjects, our will and pleasure is, that you carefully provide for their recovery, as well as for those of our own army, and then to send them to Oxford.
63. oldal - These had no beds, but a nasty court of guard, where a sutler lived, within a partition made of boards, with his wife and family...
175. oldal - Delhi, while attending to the wounded at the end of one of the streets of the city, a party of rebels advanced from the direction of the bank, and having established themselves in the houses in the street commenced firing from the roofs. The wounded were thus in very great danger, and would have fallen into the hands of the enemy had not Surgeon Reade drawn his sword and, calling upon a few soldiers who were near to follow, succeeded under a very heavy fire in dislodging the rebels from their position.
37. oldal - warily must the surgeon take heed not to remove or interfere with Nature's balsam, but protect and defend it in its working and virtue. It is the nature of flesh to possess in itself an innate balsam which healeth wounds. Every limb has its own healing in itself; Nature has her own doctor in every limb ; wherefore every chirurgeon should know that it is not he, but Nature, who heals. "What do wounds need f Nothing.
154. oldal - That the British infantry soldier is more robust than the soldier of any other nation can scarcely be doubted by those who, in 1815, observed his powerful frame, distinguished amidst the united armies of Europe ; and notwithstanding his habitual excess in drinking, he sustains fatigue and wet and the extremes of cold and heat with incredible vigour. When completely disciplined, and three years are required to accomplish this, his port is lofty and his movements free, the whole world cannot produce...
132. oldal - Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, or any Three or more of them, to...
12. oldal - ... brazen apple, whose sound, when struck, may terrify the enemy. They have also daggers. Famine, cold, and all sorts of labour they can bear, for they will even stand in their marshes for many days to the neck in water, and in the woods will live on the bark and roots of trees. They prepare a certain kind of food on all occasions, of which, taking only a bit the size of a bean, they feel neither hunger nor thirst.
85. oldal - From the middle of February, when the Army crossed the Forth, to the end of the campaign, there had been in hospital upwards of 3,000 men.