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    "title": "Report A: Report on Military Hygiene and Therapeutics",
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    "ocrText": "20\n21\nfrom contaminating the atmosphere. Patients who are\nof taking care of the wounded during and after an engage-\nable to rise from their beds should eat in adjoining rooms\nment, your Committee presents the following directions\nor tents. The wards of the hospitals should be divided\ngiven by M. Scrive to the medical officers of the French\ninto three classes, viz: surgical, medical, and convalescent.\narmy in June, 1855 : 'At the ambulance of the trenches\nTo every division of one hundred beds there should be at\nshall be assembled before the battle the non-combatant sol-\nleast one ward superintendent and six orderly men. When\ndiers-the musicians of the regiment for example, with the\nthe hospital is prepared, the compound fractures should be\ninfirmary men disposable in the different services. One or\nplaced in the most accessible wards, and injuries of the\nseveral officers of administration will direct them in the\nsame character should be placed in the same wards.\ntrenches to take up the wounded, and transport them to\nWhen wine or spirits are directed, the surgeon should see\nthe ambulance. An officer of administration having a fixed\nthem administered. To preserve the purity of the air,\nposition at the ambulance, will attend to placing the wounded,\nthe wards should be frequently whitewashed with lime.\non their arrival, in an order always the same, and determined\nThe adjacent grounds should be well drained, and the\nbeforehand to avoid confusion. The visits to the wounded\nsewers should be frequently flushed. Excretions should\nshall be made by one or more surgeons, assisted by two or\nbe as soon as possible removed from the wards. The tem-\nmore infirmary men carrying dressings, &c. ; one of these\nporary hospitals attached to camps are subject to terrible\nlast will inscribe the name of the patient, his regiment,\nmishaps. Bazancourt speaks in the following terms of the\nand his matriculated number. The surgeon will determine\neffects of a hurricane upon the frail structure used as a\nwhether the wound requires to be dressed immediately, or\nmilitary hospital by the French army in the Crimea: \"The\nif the patient can be at once transported to the ambulance\nambulance barracks are shattered by the fury of the wind;\nof the division. In the first place, the wound may be\nand whilst their roofs, carried up in the air, whirl around\ndressed on the spot, or if an immediate operation is re-\nand disappear, the broken timbers fall upon the wounded\nquired, the patient may be conveyed into the operating\nand the sick, whose beds are overturned into the pools of\nroom. After the dressing or operation, the patient may be\nrain which inundate them. Most of the patients are unable\nplaced upon the litter or ambulance cart. Where four to\nto move, being quite prostrated by illness, or by severe\nsix wounded persons are ready, they shall be conveyed to-\nwounds, and lie waiting with resignation that which the\ngether to the ambulance of the division ; and in these little\nwill of God may determine respecting them.\"\nsuccessive journeys, the muleteers, under the direction of\nIn the French army in the Crimea each ambulance for ten\nan officer commanding the train, shall betake themselves to\nthousand men had three caissons, containing materials for\nthe ambulance, whose number shall have been designated\nsix thousand dressings, and eighteen complete tents. Fly-\nby the military sub-intendant or his aid, who shall mark\ning ambulances on mules' backs were provided for regions\nupon the list of vacant places, at the different stationary\nwhere carriages could not go. As an example of the manner\nambulances, the names of the wounded whom he will send"
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