A doctor's experiences in three continents / by Edward Warren.

  • Edward Warren
Date:
1885
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Credit: A doctor's experiences in three continents / by Edward Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    still lingered in his bosom a hope of finding him alive, and of being the instrument of his rescue and return. He was making his final visit, and had passed the last ward, when he suddenly heard his name called and saw, running toward him, two soldiers whom he recognized as having belonged to the 52d North Carolina Regiment. In a moment they had embraced him, and were dragging him toward a little hut near by, crying out : The Lieutenant is not quite dead. Come, for God's sake, and save him. Upon entering the pavilion he saw u])on a rude couch the form of fi human being, attenu- ated, wan, with sunken cheeks and lusterless eyes, apparently in the throes of death, which he recog- nized to be that of his brother, so long lost and so deeply mourned—the dear boy over whom a stricken household far away in the South was shedding its bitterest tears, and, like Rachel of old, refusing to be comforted. Imagine, my dear Doctor, if you can, what were the feelings of these two brothers when they thus met in that distant land, remote from friends and kindred, the one supposing that the clods already covered the remains of him he loved so well, and the other believing that he would never behold the face or hear the voice of any one from home again. Surely a scene more touching than this was never witnessed by mortal man, and the rough soldiers around them bowed their heads in silent awe, and wept like children. After many weary days of anxiety and watching, Llewellyn had the gratification of seeing the wounds heal kindly, the wasted frame grow com-, paratively strong, and the blanched cheek lose its pallor and glow with the hues of health again. In a word, the boy's life was saved ; and though for