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War's Work

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
October
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
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uven a hospitnl is scarcely less terrible. An eminent surgeon, present in the hospitals nfter the batile of Waterloo, says, "Tlio wounded Frenchcontinued to be brought in for sevcral sucecssive daijs; and the British soidiers, who had in the morning been moved by the piteous cries of those they carried, I saw in the evening so hardened by the repetition of the scène, and by fatigue, as to become indifferent to the sufierings they occasioned!" "It was now the thirtccnlh day after the battle. it is impossible to conceive the suflerings of men rudcly carried at such a period of iheir wounds. When I firstentered íhe hospital, these Frenchmen had been roused and excited in an extraordinary degree; and in the glancp of their eyes there was a character of fierceness which I never expected to witnessin the human countenance. On the second day, the temporary excitement had subsided ; and turn which way I would, I encounlered every form of entreaty from those whose condition left no need of entreaty from ihose whose condition left no need of words to stircompassion : Surgeon Major, oh ! how I suffer ! Bress my wounds ! do dress my wounds! Doctor, I commend myself to you. Cutoff mij leg ƒ Oh ! I suffer too much.- And when ihese entreaties were unavniling, you might henr, in n weak, inward ion e of despair, I shail die. lam a dead man.1'