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made him Head Inspector at Pont-à-Mousson and placed everyone under his orders. 35 For specialists in military medicine and surgery, the Franco-Prussian War provided an unparalleled opportunity for the practical application of innovative techniques and technologies, and for close surveillance of developments in Continental warfare. This knowledge was relayed to
for war surgery. On 20 October 1990, MSF representatives accessed the rebel-held area through Mirama Hills without meeting any obstacles on the Ugandan side. Officers of the rebellion’s military wing across the border prohibited visitors from entering both the area and their field hospital and declined all offers of medical assistance: He
enthusiastic, but, as the most candid admitted, cavalier in their absolute power over the sick and wounded, and dangerously ill-equipped for battlefield surgery. Still others left businesses and professional occupations behind. Derision and suspicion abounded, of amateurism, profiteering, theft from cadavers and a ghoulish voyeurism; of civilising war, but in doing so, making it palatable. At the time of the
chronicler of the Anglo-American ambulance during the Franco-Prussian War, was now one of the leading medical men in Victorian Britain. As surgeon and lecturer at St Thomas’ Hospital he was known as an expert on antiseptic surgery and, at the NAS, for his allegiance to Loyd Lindsay’s vision of voluntary aid to the battlefield – a disposition that did nothing to mollify Kennett
engraving, thus the fine arts cannot exist among them … They have scarcely any notion of medicine or surgery; and they do not allow of anatomy. As to science, the telescope, the microscope, the electric battery, are unknown, except as playthings. The compass is not universally employed in the navy, nor are its common purposes fully understood. Navigation, astronomy, geography, chemistry, are either not known, or practised only on antiquated and exploded principles. 163 Newman takes up two other fields of intellectual activity which he believed were forbidden to Muslims
lost between missionaries and most colonial officials, many of whom were unbearably arrogant. Winston abhorred them in the beginning and Miss Dorothy Mackley distrusted them at the end. 4 Colonial residents were equally irritated by the prudery of the Wesleyans. In 1925 the Mandalay District Medical Officer, Dr Sheldon, lost patience with the stream of pallid missionaries shuffling through his surgery. He wrote disparagingly to the WMMS Medical Officer in London suggesting that they should have more fresh air and vigorous exercise
church members including a traumatised and frightened Maung Tin, who symbolised the depressed state of Mandalay itself. 12 In January 1946 Firth toured the Methodist District, compiling inventories of bombed out buildings as he went. Meiktila was ‘completely destroyed’. In Kyaukse the Boys School was gutted and the slojd building had been damaged. 13 Little remained of the Girls School or the Women’s Work bungalow, and the church roof had been blown off. A doctor was using the Mission House as his surgery. In Maymyo