History of the United States Sanitary Commission : being the general report of its work during the war of the rebellion / by Charles J. Stillé.

  • United States Sanitary Commission
Date:
1866
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    remarkable skill and fidelity, and the result was that these ^treatises or monographs, embracing a com- pendious system of instruction on many important medical and surgical questions arising in military practice, formed for the Army Surgeons a portable medical library, of great value. These monographs, nineteen in number, were prepared at intervals, and distributed by the Commission to all the Medical Officers of the army. The mode thus adopted for increasing the efficiency of the service is another illus- tration of the wide and comprehensive views taken by the Commission of the nature of the duty confided to it. These little manuals were gladly welcomed by the Surgeons, and perhaps nothing contributed more to maintain cordial relations between them and the Agents of the Commission,than this practical proof of the enlightened and liberal policy adopted by it, a policy which was prompted by an earnest desire to help them to help themselves. [See Appendix, No. 8.] But the great work of the Commission, without the accomplishment of which it was felt, that all else it might do, would prove but of partial and Re-organization . -i , ji of the Medical temporary benefit, was the Re-organization Bureau. of the Medical Department of the Army. Its members were convinced, that while the existing sys- tem continued with its utter inadequacy of means to the end, and especially with the positive indisposition shown on all occasions by its higher officers so to modify its arrangements as properly to provide for all the needs of the new condition, there could be no per- manent improvement in the care of the sick and wounded. They determined, therefore, to strike at the