Report of observations made in the British military hospitals in Belgium after the battle of Waterloo, with some remarks upon amputation / by John Thomson.

Date:
1816
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Credit: Report of observations made in the British military hospitals in Belgium after the battle of Waterloo, with some remarks upon amputation / by John Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    vates under the care of the British Medical Staff there, amounting to upwards of 2500 men, collected into six hospitals. Five of these hospitals, the Jesuits, Elizabeth, Annonciate, Orpheline, and that of Notre Dame, were si- tuate in the higher and more healthy parts of the town ; the hospital, containing the French prisoners, in a building formerly occupied as a barrack by the Gens-d’armerie, being in a low- er part of the town, was more unfavourably placed. In all of these hospitals, a few cases of the bilious remittent and intermittent fevers of the country were to be observed, and these cases were more severe, and, proportionally, more numerous in the Gens-d’armerie than in any of the other hospitals, owing, partly per- haps, to the low situation of this hospital, but chiefly, I believe, to the circumstances that the wounds were in general of the very worst kind, and that many of the men, previously to their admission, had caught this fever in the low, damp houses and marshy situations, from which they had been gradually collected. The first period of inflammation, and of the symptomatic fever by which it is usually ac- companied, was over, in a considerable number 9