A manual of military surgery : for the use of surgeons in the Confederate States Army; with explanatory plates of all useful operations / By J. Julian Chisolm.

  • Chisolm, Julian John, 1830-1903.
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of military surgery : for the use of surgeons in the Confederate States Army; with explanatory plates of all useful operations / By J. Julian Chisolm. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ke}r at times becomes a necessary issue to sustain the health of the army under severe trials. The Turks place great reliance on coffee as a pre- servative against dysentery ; and McLeod states, as a result of his Crimean experience : I have no doubt that, if the precaution had been taken to supply the troops every morning with hot coffee, as they went on or returned from duty, much of our mortality might have been avoided. As roasted and ground coffee has become a fixed ar- ticle of trade, it would be much better for the troops if it could be served out in this form, mixed with a due proportion of sugar, particularly when they are upon extra duty, as it not only saves them much time, but insures the proper preparation of a supporting bever- age. If coffee can not be obtained, the best substitute is a pint of hot soup, which might be prepared from fresh beef when this article is abundant; 'but, what is still better for army purposes, from a spiced soup-cake, which is made of choice portions of beef, farinaceous ingredients, and sjnees—the whole cooked, compressed, and desiccated. These cakes occupy but a small space, can be easil}T carried, will keep for months; and, by cutting them up in the proportion of a pint of boiling water for each cake, and allowed to boil for ten or fifteen minutes, a pint of excellent, Avell-fiavored soup can be made. It requires no longer to make a pint of good soup, with one of Jones' soup-cakes, than would be required to make a cup of coffee, with the coffee already parched and ground. On account of the very great exposure to which our troops must Submit, without the protection of tents to shield them from the drenching ruins or the heavy nightly dews, when it could be obtained, a dram of