BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, LOOKED AT FROM A MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW. BY CHARLES BRYCE, M.D. FELLOW OF THE FACULTY OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, GLASGOW; A FOUNDER AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, AUTHOR OF 93 66 SKETCH OF THE STATE OF MEDICINE IN TURKEY, MEMOIR ΤΟ ANDREW SMITH, M.D., F.R.S., DIRECTOR-GENERAL, ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, ETC. ETC. ETC. MY DEAR SIR, It affords me very sincere pleasure to inscribe this volume to you. I consider you have rendered inestimable services to the British Army by the exercise of consummate administrative talents, and by your defence of the merits and competency of the Department of which you are the Chief, under circumstances and at a time when judgment courage and official integrity were all needful for success. As one of the number of Civil Physicians and Surgeons attached to the Eastern Expedition, I gladly embrace this opportunity of expressing my gratitude for the care you took that our position should be useful and honourable while we were engaged in military duties. you, I desire, likewise to thank in this form, for many acts of personal kindness towards myself, more particularly for your selection of me for a service that enabled me to collect materials for the present slight contribution to the medical literature of the Crimean War. I remain, with much esteem, Most sincerely yours, CHARLES BRYCE. OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON, September, 1857. b |