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    "ocrText": "4\n5\nment at the ambulances and hospitals, viz: 50, 000 for wounds,\nopened. After the taking of the Malakoff, the French sur-\nand 150,000 for diseases. The medical officers of the French\ngeons had the care of 5,000 wounded persons, including\narmy arranged their plans for taking care of their sick and\nmany of the Russians. The whole number of patients under\nwounded on the basis of the calculation that 10 per cent.\ntreatment at that time in the French ambulances was 10, 520.\nwould be under treatment at one time. So at the period\nIn one division three surgeons and an apothecary had the\nwhen the number of their troops was limited to 40,000 they\nentire care of 900 patients. The number of the wounded\nmade provision for 4 000 to 5,000 patients. In the attacks\nafter the battle of the Tchernaia was 2,474, viz: 810 French\nof cholera during the Dobrudscha expedition. the propor-\nand 1, 664 Russians coming under the care of the French sur-\ntion of deaths to attacks was as 1 to 11% More than 8, ,000\ngeons. Typhus fever broke out in the French army in De-\nFrench soldiers were placed hors du combat by the cholera\ncember, 1855; in that month there were 734 cases. In Jan-\nin the epidemic of Varna and Dobrudscha. At the end of\nuary there were 1,523 cases. During the two months,\n787\nFebruary of the first winter in the Crimea, there were 3, 000\ncases terminated fatally. In February there were 3,402\ncases of scurvy in the French army, averaging 100 for each\ncases, of which 1,435 were fatal. The disease attacked large\nold regiment, and 25 for each new one. At the same period\nnumbers of persons who had been previously sick with other\nthe wounds presented an unhealthy appearance, the granu-\ndiseases. Every other disease seemed to be transformed\nlations were flabby, and traumatic gangrene was frequently\ninto this terrible scourge. Seventy-five French surgeons in\nobserved. In the month of June, 1855, there were 4,000\nthe Crimea were sick with typhus, and thirty-one died of it.\ncases of cholera, and more than six thousand wounds. The\nScrive says, that the losses occasioned by the most mur-\nmedical officers suffered greatly in health from their inces-\nderous battles do not equal one-fourth of the total losses to\nsant and exhausting labors, about one-third of their number\nwhich an army is ordinarily subjected.' Scrive, in report-\nbeing sick. After the battle of Traktir Bridge in August,\ning the sanitary condition of the army in February, 1856,\n1855, the Fronch surgeons performed 300 amputations and\nmakes the following remarks: The regiments were not all\nresections. A number of them were obliged to walk a great\nattacked in the same degree. The proportion of the sick\ndistance to the field of action; they were occupied with dress-\nbears a close relation to the energy of the exciting causes.\ning wounds nearly the whole day, exposed to the heat of the\nThus, but few patients were found in the 17th battalion of\nsun, and then returned in the afternoon to the stationary\nchasseurs-10 out of 450 men. This battalion is comfort-\nambulances, to perform urgent operations, which were not\nably quartered in barracks of good elevation; the ground is\ncompleted before midnight. The Malakoff was taken in Sep-\ncarefully paved; each soldier has a bed raised thirty centi-\ntember, 1855, after 316 days of hard work and fighting in\nmetres, or about twelve inches, from the ground. Perfect\nthe trenches. A million of sand-bags and 80,000 gabions\ncleanliness is observed throughout. The sea of mud of the\nhad been employed. There had been 600,000 discharges of\nadjoining streets is replaced by a stone pavement. Great\ncannon and mortars. Twenty leagues of trenches had been\ncare is taken as to diet, and vegetables are never wanting."
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