Memoirs of Military Surgery, and Campaigns of the French Armies, on the Rhine, in Corsica, Catalonia, Egypt, and Syria; at Boulogne, Ulm, and Austerlitz; in Saxony, Prussia, Poland, Spain, and Austria, Volume 1

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Joseph Cushing, 6, North Howard street, 1814 - Medicine, Military - 11 pages
 

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Page 208 - In vain is coolness sought for ; all bodies in which it is usual to find it deceive the hand that touches them. Marble, iron, water, notwithstanding the sun no longer appears, are hot. The streets are deserted, and the dead silence of night reigns every where. The inhabitants of towns and villages shut themselves up in their houses, and those of the desert in' their tents, or in pits they dig in the earth, where they wait the termination of this destructive heat.
Page 109 - Larrey lost no time in organizing a sort of .head-quarters for his department. He formed a school of practical surgery for the instruction of the young surgeons of the army, and addressed to his colleagues, surgeons of the first class, a memoir on the epidemic ophthalmia, which began to show itself in a formidable manner among the troops. The climate and the sabres of the Mamelukes provided patients in abundance, many of whom had limbs cut clean off by those terrible weapons.
Page 7 - The nutrition of the body is suspended, because nothing can be retained on the stomach ; emaciation ensues and increases. The faculties of the mind suffer in common with the organs of animal life, and this change takes place to such a degree, that instead of dreading death, as in the commencement of the disease, their suffering is so intolerable, that they desire it; and as I have seen, attempt to commit suicide.
Page 177 - The hatching of the eggs, which these flies constantly deposit in the wounds or dressings, was assisted by the heat of the weather and by the quality of the dressings, which were of cotton, which alone could be procured in this country. The presence of these insects in the wounds appeared to accelerate their suppuration ; but they caused a disagreeable pruritus, and obliged us to dress them three or four times a day. They are produced in a few hours, and increase with such rapidity that in the course...
Page 81 - ... of ambulance consisted of twelve light carriages on springs for the transportation of the wounded: they were of two sorts, some with two wheels, others with four.* The former kind were calculated for flat level countries, the others to carry the wounded across the mountains. The frame of the former resembled an elongated cube, curved on the top: it had two small windows on each side, a folding door opened before and behind. The floor of the body was moveable ; and on it were placed a hair mattress,...
Page 23 - I now first discovered the inconveniences to which we were subjected in moving our ambulances, or military hospitals. The military regulations required that they should always be one league distant from the army. The wounded were left on the field, until after the engagement, and were then collected at a convenient spot, to which the ambulances repaired as speedily as possible; but the number of wagons interposed between them and the army, and many other difficulties so retarded their progress, that...

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