Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from 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 Others Armies in the Crimean War
The acknowledged value of the experiences of the French Army in the Crimean war, has suggested the translation of the present volume, with the desire to render the results of the dearly-bought lessons of that campaign useful to the American Armies in the present war for the preservation of our national Government.
It became the painful duty of the historians of the Crimean war to record many errors and over-sights, resulting in a most fearful loss of human life. When these faults were discovered, their remedy was attempt ed by the medical and administrative officers of the army, with as much success as their resources allowed and the expedients adopted for relief, in a wild and desolate region, at a great distance from their supplies, are at once suggestive and profitable to every person who may-be concerned in the health of armies. In the translation, the French weights and measures have been mainly changed to their corresponding values known and used in the United States, precisely or approximately, according to the original intention of the author. In rough estimates the metre has been called the yard, an allowance being made when the numbers were large; but in every case Where precise quantities are expressed, the rendering has been care fully made, and in some instances both denominations have been retained.
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