THE TALE OF A
FIELD HOSPITAL
BY
SIR FREDERICK TREVES, BART.
G.C.V.O., C.B., LL.D.
Late Consulting Surgeon with H.M. Troops in South Africa,
Serjeant-Surgeon to H.M. the King, Author of "The
Other Side of the Lantern," etc.
NEW EDITION
WITH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1912
First Published October 1900
Reprinted November and December 1900
February and August 1901
New Edition, November 1911
Preface to New Edition
The South African War, of which this Tale is told,is already near to be forgotten, although there aremany to whom it still remains the most tragicmemory of their lives.
War is ever the same: an arena, aglare withpomp and pageant, for the display of that mostelemental and most savage of human passions, thelust to kill, as well as a dumb torture place whereare put to the test man's fortitude and his capacityfor the endurance of pain.
This brief narrative is concerned not withshouting hosts in defiant array, but with the moaningand distorted forms of men who have been "scorchedby the flames of war." It deals with the grey hoursafter the great, world-echoing display is over, withthe night that ends the gladiator's show, when thearena is occupied only by the maimed, the dyingand the dead.
It is admitted that in the South African Warthe medical needs of the Army were efficiently andpromptly supplied. This account serves to show ofwhat kind is the work of the BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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