Experiences of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals : with observations on the English, French and other medical departments and the organization of military medical schools and hospitals / by Peter Pincoffs.

  • Pincoffs, Peter, 1816-1872.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Experiences of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals : with observations on the English, French and other medical departments and the organization of military medical schools and hospitals / by Peter Pincoffs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    wliom it was distributed 7'ecidy roasted, and who were provided with cylindrical hand-mills for grinding it. It is undoubtedly preferable to tea for men exposed to damp and fatigue. The French had no lime juice, but the wine which they got as a ration w^as nearly as useful as a vegetable acid; light beer would be of infinite value to the English soldier as an anti-scorbutic. Prior to the last war, the loss during the Turco- Russian campaign of 1828 — 29 (about 80,000 men) was always quoted as an enormous instance of mor- tality by disease, awful as this loss was it sinks into insignificance when compared with the total number Avhich perished during the late campaign. In the absence of official returns of other armies I submit a comparison of the loss of the British Army during the winter 1854—55 with that sustained by the Russians in 1828 — 29. The campaign began in May 1828; up to the end of February 1829 the total number of admissions in hos- pital and deaths of the Russian army had been on the average strength of 150,000 men * admissions mortality deatlis in regimental hospitals 75,226 6,8percent:= 5,115 in stationary ,, 134,882 18,3 ,, = 24,683 Total 210,108 29,798 The total number of admissions into hospital and deaths of the British Army from 1^' Oct. 1854 to 30*^ April 1855 t shows on an average strength of 28,939 men, admissions 56,057 deaths 10,053 * See Beitrag zur Geschichte des Feldzugs in der Tlirkei in den Jaliren 1828 — 29 von Dr. Seidlitz. Hamburg 1854. f See General Abstract showing the total number of ad- N 2