Document
Report B: Directions to Army Surgeons on the Field of Battle, by J. G. Guthrie
Images (7)
This item is an essay that provides directions to army surgeons regarding the proper care of soldiers on the battlefield. The directions were issued by J. G. Guthrie, the Surgeon General to the British Forces during the Crimean War.
- Part of Records of the American National Red Cross, Reports, Essays, and Other Issuances
Extracted text
OCR Page 1 of 7for
SANITARY COMMISSION.
B.
DIEOIONS
TO
ARMY SURGEONS ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
BY J. G. GUTHRIE,
Surgeon General to the British Forces during the Crimean War.
[Adopted by the Commission, and printed for the use of United States Army Surgeons. By
order: FRED. LAW OLMSTED, Secretary.]
FOURTH EDITION
]
1. Water being of the utmost importance to wounded men,
care should be taken when before the enemy, not only that
barrels attached to conveyance-carts are properly filled with
good water, but that skins for holding water, or such other
means as are commonly used in the country for carrying it,
should be procured and duly filled.
2. Bandages or rollers applied on the field of battle, are,
in general, so many things wasted, as they become dirty and
stiff, and are usually cut away and destroyed without having
been really useful. [Nevertheless, in connection with splints,
in cases of fractures of the limbs, they are indispensable.]
3. Simple gun-shot wounds require nothing more, for the
first two or three days, than the application of a piece of wet
or oiled linen, fastened on with a strip of sticking-plaster, or,
if possible, kept constantly wet and cold with water. When
cold disagrees, warm water should be substituted.
Relations
belongs_to
belongs_to