On military and camp hospitals, and the health of troops in the field : being the results of a commission to inspect the sanitary arrangements of the French Army, and incidentally of other armies in the Crimean War / by L. Baudens ; translated and annotated by Franklin B. Hough.
- Date:
- 1862
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On military and camp hospitals, and the health of troops in the field : being the results of a commission to inspect the sanitary arrangements of the French Army, and incidentally of other armies in the Crimean War / by L. Baudens ; translated and annotated by Franklin B. Hough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![The Medical Service of onr armies was never better orfjanized, its agents better instructed or more zealous, and its materiel more complete, or in better state for use. A report from you, as Inspector General, upon the condition of the Medical Service in the Crimea and at Constantinople, its extraordinary services under fire, in three battles, and in a memorable siege, the assistance prepared at the theatre of combat, and in places where inventive genius and a love of humanity must supply all our wants, so far away from France, and in a rude- season of the year. In addition to these, the develop- ment of epidemics,—the cholera and typhus, may double the ravages of war ; and there will be afforded you an opportunity for rendering sublimer services than ever fell to the lot of Larrey, your predecessor, in the history of our armies. I have given you, sir, a brief and imperfect pro- gramme, drawn at too great a distance, and Avitli a hand little competent, but with an earnest and vivid regard for the honor of France, and the glorious titles earned by the armies which you have the honor to represent. I doubt not but that in our army of the East, Science will attain new facts in the art of healing. You will assuredly collect and weave them into a pic- ture, in which Art shall recognise the master's hand. These noble suggestions pointed out to me an end so elevated that I dare not hope to attain it, but they decided me in undertaking this labor, which the Revue des Deux Mondes first published,* and Avhich I here collect in a volume. The grand memories of the Crimean Avar belong chiefly to history ; and now wise and useful measures, as Avell as errors and faults, may be discussed with equal loyalty and double ])rofit, to the end that hence- forth, instructed by experience, Ave may be able Avith certainty to adopt the one, and carefully avoid the other. * The numbers for February 15tli, April 1st, and June 1st, 1857.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21951780_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
