Contributions relating to the causation and prevention of disease, and to camp diseasesU. S. Sanitary Commission, 1867 - 667 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 280 - Indeed it was most remarkable, in all our reiterated experience of this malady, that whatever discouraged our people, or at any time damped their hopes, never failed to add new vigour to the distemper; for it usually killed those who were in the last stages of it, and confined those to their hammocks who were before capable of some kind of duty...
Page 517 - ... lice, as they lay amongst the sick and dying, formed a picture of helpless, hopeless misery which it would be impossible to portray by words or by the...
Page 89 - ... regulation, and one pound of potatoes per man shall be issued at least three times a week, if practicable ; and, when these articles cannot be issued in these proportions, an equivalent in value shall be issued in some other proper food...
Page 515 - The effects of scurvy were manifested on every hand, and in all its various stages, from the muddy, pale complexion, pale gums, feeble, languid muscular motions, lowness of spirits, and fetid breath, to the dusky, dirty, leaden complexion, swollen features, spongy, purple, livid, fungoid, bleeding gums, loose teeth...
Page 652 - Northern prisons was earnest and universal, and this desire for speedy and continuous exchange on the part of the Government, as well as on the part of the people...
Page 522 - The dead-house is merely a frame covered with old tent cloth and a few bushes, situated in the southwestern corner of the hospital grounds. When a patient dies, he is simply laid in the narrow street in front of his tent, until he is removed by...
Page 186 - Another favoring circumstance, and by no means the least potential, was the superior morale, the hopefulness, and elasticity of spirit which is given to a man by investing him with a commission, and its accompanying authority, responsibility, and chances of advancement.
Page 429 - Glossy fingers appear to be a sign of peculiarly impaired nutrition and circulation due to injury of the nerves. They are not observed in all cases of injured nerves, and I cannot tell what are the peculiar conditions of the cases in which they are found ; but they are a very notable sign, and are always associated, I think, with distressing and hardly manageable pain and disability.
Page 523 - Two large iron pots, similar to those used for boiling sugar-cane, were the only cooking utensils furnished by the hospital for the cooking of near two thousand men ; and the patients were dependent in great measure upon their own miserable utensils. They were allowed to cook in the tent doors and in the lanes, and this was another source of filth and another favorable condition for the generation of flies and other vermin. The air of the tents was foul and disagreeable in the extreme, FOUI »ir...