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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![typliic patients would certainly engendci- infection. Dr. Artigues, wlio has resided for some time in this country, has given me valuable information, Avhich I shall make use of. And although I hold a sea voyage in great horror, I should not hesitate to make it, in the hoj^es that some service might result from it. I am at this moment much distressed. My private secretary, M. Benjamin Crombez, a young man full of cournge and self-denial, whose help is so valuable tome, is suffei'ing from a severe attack of typhus, caught dur- ing our visits to the hospitals. I pray heaven to take pity on him and spare me the pain of seeing him die a victim to his devotion ! I have this moment received from Marshal Pelissier an answer to my letter of the 22d; he tells me that the reports received from all quarters agree in showing that the sanitary conditions are considerably improved. He continues to use all eiforts to advance this improvement, for which happily the weather is favorable. I have always found the Marshal ready to listen to the counsels of the ])hysicians; he gives them full justice and honors them Avith his fullest confidence. I owe to his assistance the prompt execution of the prescriptions which I deem iiu^ispensable. I learn from M. Scrive that all the prophylactic measures applied to the troops before their departure for France, are faithfully executed. He is strongly impressed with the danger of propagation of typhus on board of the transports on their passage to France. In one of his lettei's, he says : ' I yesterday received a repoi't froni Mr, Molard, director of the hospital at Gallipolis; sixty-two cases of typhus have been landed from the ships le Navarin and le Jx(pitt)\ and yet the soldiers left Kamiesch and Eupatoria in good health. It is impossible that it should be otherwise. What would have been the result if these vessels had remained fifteen days at sea without touching land ?' Fi om General de Martimprey, chief of the staff, I received a letter on the 2d of May, 1856, as follows: ' You know, sir, that we are improving here, al- though slowly. Those remaining of the 2d corps, which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21951780_0264.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
