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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![noticing the zeal with which tlie soldiers sought Avood under tlic rubbisli, and loaded it upon tlieir shoulders or upon their arahas. Planks, heauis, Avindows, broken doors, bricks, tiles, and, hi sliort, everything was taken that could bo turned to use. The Russians, seeing theui so busy, sought to annoy them with cannon, but our soldiers allowed no snch little affair to disturb them. I have seen them climb upon the roofs of the highest buiklings, to strip off the sheets of zinc. The Russians would shoot at them as at a target, and they would re[»ly by a mocking gesture w^ell known among the blackguards of Paris. CHAPTER IV. CLOTHING. As, in the Algerinc war, we introduced into our military costume, modifications ai>propriate to the climate, so, in the Crimean war, we borrowed from the native Tartars certain garments which better shielded our soldiers against the rigors of tlieir winter. The Crimeenne is a long and ample hooded cloak, Avith a little cape, and falls to the middle of the leg. The cloth is coarse, but warm, and almost water-proof. Excepting the general officers, who wore an overcoat trimmed with fur, everybody wore the Criuieenne^ and it replaced the African humous^ and the Caban. It proved very useful, and will perhaps be regularly adopted, as it guards the soldier from diseases acquired so often by passing suddenly from the high tempera- ture of the guard-room to the cold outside air, in mounting guard at night. The hood shields the head and neck from the cold, the wind, and dampness; pre- vents the engorgement of the glands of the neck, and the bronchitis, to which they are liable fi-om tlie cliill. A pre])aration of India-rubber Avould easily render the little cape which covers the shoulders water-proof. This garment would replace with advantage the blau-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21951780_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
