The work of humanity in war : plan and results of the Geneva Congress and International Treaty, securing to the sick and wounded in war the benefits of neutrality and sanitary care / prepared under direction of the American branch of the International Association for Relief of Misery of Battlefields.

  • American Association for the Relief of the Misery of Battle Fields.
Date:
1870
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Credit: The work of humanity in war : plan and results of the Geneva Congress and International Treaty, securing to the sick and wounded in war the benefits of neutrality and sanitary care / prepared under direction of the American branch of the International Association for Relief of Misery of Battlefields. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Abticle 9. The High Contracting Powers have agreed to communicate the present Con- vention to those Groyernments which have not found it convenient to send pleni- potentiaries to the International Conference at Greneva, with an invitation to accede thereto ; the protocol is for that purpose left open. Article 10. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shaU be exchanged at Berne, in four months, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms. Done at Geneva, the twenty-second day of August, one thousand eight hun- dred and sixty-four. (Signed,) ***** Additions to tlie Articles of the Treaty, {Original of August 22, 1864,) adopted October 20, 1868. \The articles relating to Naval war omitted?^ Additional Aeticle 1. The staff designated in the 2d Article of the Treaty, will continue, after oc- cupation by the enemy, to give, according to need, assistance to the sick and wounded of the ambulance (temporary hospital) to which it is attached. When that staff shall ask to retire, the commandant of the occupying troops shall fix the period of its departure, which, however, he may delay only for a short time, in the event of mihtary necessities. Additional Article 2. Measures shall be taken by the belligerent Powers, to ensure to the neutral- ized staff which has fallen into the hands of the enemy, the complete enjoyment of its treatment of the patients. Additional Article 3. Under the conditions specified by Articles 1 and 4 of the Convention, the term ambulance applies to the field-hospitals and to other temporary establish- ments which follow troops upon field of battle, for the reception of the sick or wounded. Additional Article 4. Conformably to the spirit of the 5th Article of the Convention, and to the reservations mentioned in the Protocol of 1864, it is explained that on regulat-