Surgeon in Belgium - Couverture souple

Souttar, H S

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1783310308 ISBN 13 : 9781783310302

Editeur : Naval & Military Press, 2014

Synopsis

The author of this book, who before the war was an assistant surgeon at West London Hospital, was one of the surgeons in charge of the British Field Hospital for Belgium, which began its work in Antwerp in September 1914 with 150 beds and a staff of eight doctors and twenty nurses. On October 9th, in view of the German occupation, the hospital had to leave the city and successfully did so with over 100 patients being removed in buses. It started up again in Furnes, near La Panne, as the official Field Hospital of the Belgian Army. The location was only a few miles behind the firing line, which made the work quite exciting from the military point of view, and its independence of the British medical organisation brough up many novel problems of supply and maintenance. The author was able to visit other places such as Termonde, Malines, Purvies and Ypres and his descriptions of them so early in the war, supported by photographs, reflect the deep impressions they made on him.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

To write the true story of three months work in a hospital is a task before which the boldest man might quail. Let my very dear friends of theB elgian Field Hospital breathe again, for I have attempted nothing of the sort. I would sooner throw aside my last claim to self-respect, and write my autobiography. It would at least be safer. But there were events which happened around us, there was an atmosphere in which we lived, so different from those of our lives at home that one felt compelled to try to picture them before they merged into the shadowy memories of the past. And this is all that I have attempted. To all who worked with me through those months I owe a deep debt of gratitude. That they would do everything in their power to make the hospital a success went without saying, but it was quite another matter that they should all have conspired to make the time for me one of the happiest upon which I shall ever look back.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Naval & Military Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783310308
• ISBN 13: 9781783310302
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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