Introductory Lectures to a Course of Military Surgery: Delivered in the University of Edinburgh

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Black, 1830 - 246 Seiten
 

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Seite 211 - The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless; gasping and groaning unpitied, among men made obdurate by long continuance...
Seite 63 - For twenty successive days it marched towards the enemy, and in less than one month after it had defeated him, mustered within thirty men as strong as before the action, — and this too without reinforcements from England, the ranks having been recruited by convalescents.
Seite 16 - ... for him, and throw him into it, saying, that it was as well that the peasants should finish him. But being moved with pity, I told him (says Pare), that the captain might yet be cured : many gentlemen of the company joined with me in begging that he might be allowed to go with the baggage, since I was willing to dress and cure him.
Seite 20 - ... was dead. Then we demanded of them what chirurgery stuff they had to cure men withal, and they would show us a pot or a box, which they had in a budget, wherein was such trumpery as they did use to grease horses heels withal, and laid upon scabbed horses backs, with nerval, and such like.
Seite 17 - Parey to go out along with them ; and at the time when all the noblesse of the kingdom were shut up in Mentz, which was besieged by Charles V. in person, at the head of 100,000 men, they sent a sort of embassy to the king, their master, beseeching him to send Parey to them.
Seite 19 - Thessalus's sect were called Thessalians, so was this rabblement, for their notorious cures, called dog-leeches ; for in two dressings they did commonly make their cures whole and sound for ever, so that they neither felt heat nor cold, nor no manner of pain after. But when the Duke of Norfolk, who was then general, understood how the people did die, and that of small wounds, he sent for me and certain other surgeons, commanding us to make search how these men came to their death...
Seite 5 - ... the surgeon sees much which is terrible, much which taxes his feelings of humanity, and his regret at the feebleness of his art, he has also the comforting conviction that nowhere is his beneficent mission so felt, nowhere is the saving power of his profession so fully exercised ; so true is it, that "Chirurgery triumphs in armies and in sieges. 'Tis there that its empire is owned, 'tis there that its effects, and not words, express its eulogium."* • Dionis, quoted by Sir George Ballingall.
Seite 217 - RESEARCHES INTO THE CAUSES, NATURE, and TREATMENT of the more prevalent DISEASES of INDIA, and of WARM CLIMATES generally.
Seite 173 - It was his duty, to see that, however short a time a battalion or a corps rested in one place, a regimental hospital was established; indeed as...
Seite 20 - Grace to be banged for their worthy deeds, except they would declare the truth, what they were and of what occupations, and in the end they did confess, as I have declared to you before.

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