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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![pustules of ecthyma, etc.; but of all these symptoms the sudamina have been the most favoi*able—their appear- ance has always presaged convalescence. More than fifty patients have had sores on the sacrum, or gangrenous spots on the limbs; in two cases tliese appeared on the scrotum. One of the patients, who seemed to be convalescent, was affected with sphacelated ulcers of the scrotum, of the upper part of the thigh, and of the perineum, which eat through into the rectum in two places; he died. Once I observed I'apid ulceration of the two corneas. Treatment.—At the beginning, an emetic or eraeto- cathartic, with an infusion of flax-seed. During the catarrhal period, diet, sudorific and diluent drinks, a few leeches to the mastoid ])rocess; saline or oily purgatives. When the adynamic stage is reached, broth, drink of wine, tisane, with melissa or acetate of ammonia, eight to thirty gi'ammes in twenty-four hours; frictions Avith camphorated vinegar; to stop involuntary stools, enemas of hypochlorate of soda, or ratanhia, which is preferable; if there is distension of the stomach, I employ campho- rated embrocations. When nervous symptoms predo- minate, I have employed camphor, musk, ether, but not often with any good result. At the commencement, I bled twelve or thirteen men—only one died. In three cases the blood was covered with a thick buffy coat. This report is particularly worthy of attention, be- cause the sailors who were attacked by the disease were in perfect health, and of unimpaired constitution. Like- wise, the progress of typhus has been more distinct and regular in the crews of the navy than in the worn-out soldiers; and the blood-letting, Avhich would have been fatal to the latter, was employed with benefit to the for- mer. Bleeding at the nose has been more frequent than with the soldiers. We have likewise observed gangre- nous eschar, following typhus, in the hospitals of the land forces. As to the furious delirium which M. Mar- cet had such trouble in suppressing, Ave have seen Medical-director Garrat, at Daoud-Facha, constantly](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21951780_0261.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
