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Title: Proceedings of the... Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. Meeting
Subjects: Surgery, Military Medicine, Military Surgery, Military Medicine, Military Military Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : The Association
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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command search for wounded, for at that periodwounds will be served out as fast or faster than they can be dressed,and the battalion may consider itself lucky if its surgeon is not oneof the first to fall. The late Japanese war statistics disclose theominous fact that 4 per cent, of the total casualties were medicalofficers. A medical officer is an expensive article to train and noteasily replaced at a moments notice. Old Homer says .A wise physician skilled our wounds to heal,Is more than armies to the commonweal, —a sentiment in which a tactician would not agree, though hemight admit that the records of late wars disclose an enormousbutchers bill of what he generally calls non-combatants. TheJapanese follow the English in putting medical officers in the act-ual fighting line and the reason is the great moral effect it has inpromoting confidence in the troops. Besides the duties mentioned, the regimental bearers shouldhave some knowledge of Bearer Company work, for the latter unit
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586 Surgeon Captain Rory Fletcher. has but a limited mobility and is not always able to keep continu-ous touch with its brigade. So also as is laid down in StaffDuties in the Field,1 a dressing station once established canhardly be moved during the same day. In the case then of a rapidforward movement a great deal of the bearer company work mayfall on the shoulders of the regimental aid. Let us pass to the technical instruction of the regimentalbearers. AYhat are the nature of the injuries they will be calledupon to treat? Wounds, fractures and especially hemorrhage, andto the rapid treatment of these emergencies must we train them.It is generally admitted that the large increase in the proportion ofdead will be due to hemorrhage. Dr. Herman Fischer of the Ger-man army considers there is another factor, viz: greater liabilityto wounds of the upper extremity, but Melville has shown that thestatistics of modern wars do not support this opinion. The im-mediate treatment of hemorrhage, th

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