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A few weeks ago a learned judge on the At the very commencement of their operations in the. East, the East India English Bench took pecasion to pay s Company recognised the need for pro- tribute to the wonderful mental grasp of viding surgeons for their Servauts, On Napoleon. In a remarkable collection the first expedition under Sir James Lun of original letters and manuscripts forn caster one of the paid officers of the staffed by the late Eart of Crawford, was a surgeon but he appears to bave Napoleon reveals his greatness in the the moment of disaster, not only by his for- taken a share in the other duties
titude, but by his sympathy and con- vessel. As soon as the settlements were mile, Bargrows were appointed-as-sideration. Evidence of the display of venanted servants of the Company and the latter qualities will come as sitry- messed in the Company's house with the prise to some, yet if Napoleon had not other officers, their places at the table continuously shown real forbearance and being marked out according to prece magnanimity he could never have main dence. Alter 1730 the surgeons of the tained his asendaticy over his men nor Company were attached to the army, and een!d he have extracted from them the!
last ounce of their 'devotion.. when the troops moved to a new station the surgeons acrominied them. There was never a very large staff, and, "es pecially when heary fighting took place, In these days of broadcasting its the deficiency was much regretted After diicult to realise that when Nelson Coote won his great victory at Wandi-smashed the French fleet on August 1st, wash. he wrote to the Directors deploring 1798, in the Battle of the Nile the full the altogether inadequate provision they had made for the treatment of the wound ed. This protest seems to have resulted in some addition to the staff of surgeons ELEMENTARY TRAINING,
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news did not reach Napoleon, stationed with his army at Cairo,, until August 15th. lucidentally, it may be atten that the news did not reach the Admiralty until Captain Capel arrived on October The training of the medical man of god; and Earl St. Vinerut, at Cadiz, those days was of a very siementary type,who had nominated Nelson to the Egypt It was necessary to serve for a her tian Command, did nos receive Nelson's of years as an apprentice to a surgeon victorious despatch until September 20th. andapothecary, which professsions were indeed, we find the Prime lister, Wil generally united. The certificate given ism Fitt, writing from Downing street koth close of this apprenticeship to his mother on August ind: "The constituted the diploma, Severnl things account of Bonaparte's arrival at AF they did know. They know how to let exandria is, am afraid, trie; but is to accurate particulärs, aud blood: they could set" simple, fractares: gives us
they had some knowledge of the pro-leaves us in entire suspense us to Nel- perties of infusions, and herbs: "but they
were totally ignorant of tropical diseases,
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But the real drama is a fura of
a study which has made such wonderful August 15th, 1798, a fortnight after the
From his commandant development in recent years. Some of disaster:
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What does Napoleon do! He writes at cped admitting that the picture which fiantemume has drawn of the catastrophe is horrible, yet the fact that Gantenume is saved marks him out as the destined
their leas of treatment appear very Aboukir, Admiral Ganteaune, Napolron strange now. For instance the treatment recrives the doleful news of the destrue- thetion of his feet; of, the death of the of dysentery" as practised by medical officer of the Company, would Admiral in cominated, Brurys, of the scarcely command favour in these days, blowing-up of his flagship, the Orient; All the doctors were agreed that as the and of the death of his commodore, Casi strength mast he" supported in dysentery. Biuncu (whose boy remained standing at wine and solid animal food were the most his post); and the rest of the sorry appropriate diet. Patients in theer tiding cases were undered pillaus, curries, grill. ed fowls, and peppered chicken broth wish a glass or two of medicine or a little brandy and water and dessert of ripe fruits. It wonk he diffeult to saz whether the ofheers of the British East India Company followed the beliefs and treatment of their confreres in the Portuguese company, whose grand reager, some day, of "otre marine et And he concludes with his for all diseases was "the changing of all amis.
sincere congratulations on his escape the European bleod in their patients
A few hours later, however, on the bodies into natives" a process that was carried out by repeated venesections till same day, thy undaunted Sapulton gets the doctors believed that all the white to work and dictates a "long letter to blood had been abstracted. Then, by Gantaume, conveying detailed instrac- diet consisting exclusively of the produc- tious as to naval measures to be taken, and tells him how anxious he is to con tions of the country they hoped to subs titute a liquid entirely Indian which would fer with him but that they must both render the patients proof against those wait until the English have left with diseases from which they had previously their rugs and tatters ("Cambeaux'). aufered.
This is not all Napoleon knows husmar nature too Well Eo, still on the same HIGH MORTALITY IN CALETT. The Surgeons of the Company frequent day, he writes another letter to Gan- This time he places at thr ly combined some other profession or busi-traume. ness with their medical activities. Their Admiral's disposal 15,000 for distribu. salary from the Company was only on among the naval officers, and tells
Chantraume to take 3,000 for himself. and is remained at that figue for over 100 years. They were, however, permitted to embark on ruling enterprises and they were frequently seen as merchants who came from up-country to the ports. Mas- ter. Sariflict, the surgeon who sailed on the Denge with Sir Henry Middleton, acted in the capacity of spiritual adviser to the Company. Whatever may have been his qualifications in this direction, he was vertainly unable to cope with the fever and dysentery which were prevalent in those days, and to which he himself wae- cumbed on his voyage bome. The sur geons had their work cut out for them, but they lacked, at knowledge of the elementary facts which are neressary to the modern imutitioner. Diseases at tacked the settlement and carried of
And it was AD finally, berang- many offers in 1757 it is stated that
leaden coffin containing Net- there is no chaplain alive in the coun the try. Captain Hamilton writes fterest son's remains was placed in this rient ingly of his visit to Calcutt and in trophy, and then further rnensed for that cidentally refers to the great mortality great lying-in-state in January, 1566 among the servants of the Conguany. The Company has a pretty good hospital
This assuredly must be accountil the earliest distribution of prize money-jo naval history-after a defeat Theinen tion of Brutegy Bagship L'Orient recalls) the fact that the mainmast of this ship! was saved from the wreck, and that, on May Back, 1795, Captam Benjamin Hal- well, of the Seiftsare, wrote thus to Nelson:
My Lord-I have taken the liberty of presenting you with a celfin maile from the mainmast of L'Orient, that when you have finished your military career in this world, you may be buried in one of your trophies; but that that period may be far distant is the earnest wish of your sincere friend.
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