 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 632 pages
...object I found that the best cases, that is the most horrid wounds, left totally without assistance, were to be found in the hospital of the French wounded....woods. It is impossible to convey to you the picture of humnn misery continually before my eyes. What was heart-rending in the day was intolerable at night;... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - Social Science - 1853 - 582 pages
...them if we would conceive aright what military glory really is, and how alone it can be purchased. woods. It is impossible to convey to you the picture...heart-rending in the day was intolerable at night. . . . At six o'clock I took the knife in my hand, and continued incessantly at work till seven in the... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - Political science - 1853 - 586 pages
...the most horrid wounds, left totally without assistance, were to be found in the French hospital ; this hospital was only forming ; they were even then bringing these poor creatures in from the tacle yet more dreadful was to present itself. Out of the straw in the bottom of a car, I now beheld... | |
 | James Everett - 1859 - 392 pages
...be found in the hospital for the French wounded, This hospital was only forming ; they were even now bringing these poor creatures in from the woods. It...human misery continually before my eyes. What was heavt-rending by day, was intolerable at night ; and I rose and wrote, at four o'clock in the morning,... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - 1860 - 284 pages
...object, I found that the best cases, that is, the most horrid wounds left totally without assistance, were to be found in the hospital of the French wounded....and wrote, at four o'clock in the morning, to the chief-surgeon, Gunning, offering to perform the necessary operations upon the French. At six o'clock... | |
 | World, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1870 - 822 pages
...I found that the best cases — that is, the most horrid wounds left totally without assistance — were to be found in the hospital of the French wounded....hospital was only forming ; they were even then bringing in these poor creatures from the woods. It is impossible to convey to you the picture of human misery... | |
 | Medicine - 1900 - 396 pages
...English surgeon, answer : "This is the second Sunday after the battle, and many are not yet dressed. It is impossible to convey to you the picture of human misery continuously before my eyes. At 8 o'clock A. ST., I took the knife in my hand, and continued incessantly... | |
 | 1844 - 768 pages
...the most horrid wounds, left totally without assistance, were to be found in the French hospital ; this hospital was only forming ; they were even then...heart-rending in the day was intolerable at night. * • * * At six o'clock I took the knife in my hand, and continued incessantly at work till seven... | |
 | Ira M. Rutkow - Medical - 1988 - 628 pages
...object, I found that the best cases, that is, the most horrid wounds left totally without assistance, were to be found in the hospital of the French wounded....and wrote, at four o'clock in the morning, to the chief-surgeon, Gunning, offering to perform the necessary operations upon the French. At six o'clock... | |
 | Richard Gordon - Medical - 1997 - 298 pages
...impoverished. Sir Charles operated impartially upon friend and enemy, with two hours' sleep a night: It is impossible to convey to you the picture of human misery continually before my eye . . . While I amputated one man's thigh, there lay at one time thirteen, all beseeching to be taken... | |
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After I had been five days engaged with the prosecution of my object, I found that the best cases, that is, the most horrid wounds left totally without assistance, were to be found in the hospital of the French wounded. This hospital was only forming;... 
