Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... With the R.A.M.C. in Egypt CHAPTER I RETROSPECT The story of the work of the British Army Medical Service in Egypt begins thirty-five years back--so long ago as the late summer of 1882--when Sir Garnet Wolseley and his force arrived to quell the rebellion of the Egyptian Army under Arabi Pasha. The campaign lasted about three months, and some idea of the heavy work which devolved on the medical contingent of the British Force may be gathered from the fact that during this period 7,600 sick and wounded men were treated in the field hospitals; while during the remainder of the year--a period of a little over eleven weeks--a further 6,800 cases passed through the hands of the medical staff, bringing the number of cases dealt with in less than six months under the most trying conditions up to a total of 14,400. But heavy as was the work entailed by the campaign itself on the Army Hospital Corps--as the medical branch of the Service was then termed--there were still more arduous, if less exciting, times in store when the British Expeditionary Force settled down in Egypt as virtually a permanent Army of Occupation. The two great cities of Egypt, Cairo and "Alexandria, had to. be garrisoned, and suitable barrack accommodation found for the troops. But--to quote from the official report of the time--"every available barrack and public building was in so foul a state as to be uninhabitable by Europeans, and it was impossible to find any unobjectionable camping ground, affording sufficient space with water-supply available, that was not, for military considerations, too far distant." Medical and sanitary science in Egypt, indeed, were at the time at so low an ebb as to be practically non-existent. Though a soidisant School of Medicine, founded in...
