In regimental hospitals it is well known that wounds heal more satisfactorily, and that purulent infection, and gangrene occur more rarely, most probably because, from the mixture of cases which takes place One building at ttala.. hieh had been a military school, was early appropriated to this purpose; and, as the number of that segregation of suppurating wounds which is so apt to occur in general hos; Moil. On the other hand, a much larger is required when the hospitals are confined to regin. iment numbering one thousand men on has a surgeon and three assistants attached to it, all of whom arcred useless if their corps is not engaged, while a superabundance to the lot of those medical (.Hirers v ut> have suffered severely in action.
Hence it follows, that if the whole r.i f tinarmy was united ami concentrated in general less than one-half of the aggregate number of professional men would stiince. fur the e said in favour of large iiingly think that, tried by the one: the saving and prolongation of life, which in our army.: 11 of advantage, tin- regimental i> the best.
If this system had existed in the French arn.x. I c.mld have carried on their medical ee; the weakness of t! r surgeons were overworked, what niii-t In- said.f thi- Kn-m-h, Miin-h larger proportion of - three of ours. Thus, a; 'nople during the unit surgeon told me he bad.'1 to sec I their regulations.; iiatcd.(l) With u>, nance (1) i ''. were so ill lligent soldiers, to dress, not only simple v also (under superintendence). This most useful corps was called " Soldats pauseurs.";ERY OF THE CRIMEAN increased, huts w "1 to add to its accommodation. This hospital was chiefly used as a depdt for the sick about to embark for the Bosphorus, and for the treatment of sailors and native labourers.
The position of the hospital was most unfortunate. In summer, it was a perfect furnace; " perched as it was in the focus of a concave mirror, of which the sides were formed of bare rock, and the bottom by the smooth water of the harbour;" and its near neighbourhood to the town was a great disadvantage. Above Balaklava, on the face of the precipitous rocks of the coast, a number of Portsmouth and double-walled huts formed the Sanitarium, to which convalescents were sent from camp. The exposed position of this hospital made it by no means an agreeable winter's residence; but in summer, its airy position, and the glorious view it commanded, afforded a most agreeable and beautiful residence for the sick who were oppressed by fever and lingering convalescence on the burning and arid plateau.
This hospital contained between 400 and 500 beds; and the results obtained in it were unequalled, in so far as curing disease was concerned. Another Sanitarium was formed above the monastery of St. George, at an elevation of 500 feet above the sea, and consisted of twelve large Chester double huts, each fitted up for twenty beds. The accommodation, both in the number of huts, and in the number of beds which each of the war not only decreased the sick list, but augmented the medical staff, so that at its termination, what between civil surgeons, assistant surgeons, acting assistant surgeons, and dressers, our hospitals, especially those in the rear, were inundated by professionals of every type, while the few who joined the army of our allies barely made up for the vast mortality which their constant labour and exposure to disease occasioned.
BOBPITAL& could be made to afford, could be greatly multiplie I on an emergency. The construction of tlie huts which formed this hospital was perfect, the ventilation everything which was desirable, the water-supply sufficient. kitchen arran-vnients most excellent; and, this establishment might have proved, it' erected at an earlier period, one of the most useful, as it was f the most prr >itals in the Mast. The beautiful seenerv by which it was surrounded, the cool which tanned it even in the heart of summer. the agreeable walks around, and the distance it; the turmoil of the camp, combined to render '' the monastery" as pleasing a residence as it was a favourable station for the illegible in the scan of the first