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2 first quality : when he has decided on the propriety Tmportance of
3 of operating, no time should be lost in putting the military sur-
4 design into execution; for a wound of a joint cer ot ies
5 which at first appears simple and unattended with day mt an
6 any danger, may in twenty-four hours assume an auired,
7 aspect which ‘will render amputation too late.
8 These remarks will be sufficient for our non-pro-
9 fessional readers: the illustration of military sur-
10 gery in India must be conveyed through another
11 channel.
12 Through the exertions of the commissariat and
13 executive officers at Feerozpore, all the wounded
14 were borne to that place a few days after the battle
15 of Sobraon, and the intention of the Governor- Intentions of
16 general, to send down the river all the survivors with ie Govemors
17 stumps, to be conveyed to England with as little “Tied ut
18 delay as possible, was eventually carried into effect ;
19 the other wounded were sent to the depOt at The depst for
20 Landour, to Subathoo, and a great number to Hahei
21 Meerutt, so that when the remainder of the army
22 of the Sutlej recrossed that river, on the 26th
23 March, no wounded men except those of Her
24 Majesty’s 62nd and 80th remained there. Over
25 this depét, Dr. Graham was appointed Superinten-
26 dent, and many young medical officers highly abitity of
27 distinguished themselves for their skill and attention ; recite aa
28 we need only mention the names of Stewart, of
29 Her Majesty’s 31st, than whom few more expert
30 or zealous surgeons are to be met with in Her
31 Majesty’s service in India—Mackie, of the 9th
32 foot—Thring, attached first to Her Majesty’s 62nd,