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Title: Proceedings of the... Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. Meeting
Subjects: Surgery, Military Medicine, Military Surgery, Military Medicine, Military Military Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : The Association
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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n Captain Melville 2 calls the chance zone the number of killed and wounded will depend on the celerity with which the men are brought across it. At first the wounded can be treated and transported to the rear, perhaps handed over to the Bearer Company; but as the decisive range is approached they must be collected in groups behind any natural cover the ground may afford. It is at the decisive range that the regimental bearer will find the necessity for all his courage, all his presence of mind and all his discipline. With the dead and dying lying in whole ranks as the Germans did round St. Privat, 3 with no curtain of smoke, but only the ceaseless hum of magazine fire in his ears, will the bearer have to flit from post to post tending the wounded and alleviating the dying. 1 Journal of United Service Institution of India. July, 1896. 2 Ibid., December, 1894. 3 The Germans are said to have lost 5,000 men in 15 minutes, and that in 8 hours 21,000 Germans, and 12,273 French were hors de combat.
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5«4 Surgeon Captain Rory Fletcher. There will be no question of carrying men to the rear for neither bearers, nor wounded, would live through it. The Balmacedists who were under magazine fire in the Chilian war declared they would sooner be shot outright at the beginning of a fight than undergo the mental torture of that leaden hail again. That the proportion of dead to wounded will be increased seems generally admitted and the proportion estimated at 1 to 3. This will to some extent lighten the bearers work. The report of Colonel Rivera that in the Chilian war the proportion of dead to wounded was 4 to 1 is, I am told, accounted for by the fact that nearly all the fighting was behind earthworks and the wounds -mostly in the head We must remember that although the troops are extended earlier than heretofore, and so the area of casualties increased in the first stages of the attack, yet this is the most favorable period for the removal of wounded. A brigade assaulting alone will not have a frontage

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