1 190 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
2 to day, or confines his attention to the extracting
3 of bullets and dressing wounds. In whatever
4 situation a battle may take place in India, the duty
5 Regimental Of the regimental surgeon is to be with the wounded,
6 shold te nO matter whether these be on the field or at a
7 with the depot near at hand, until all the capital operations
8 be performed. During the present war, and when
9 the Governor-general visited the wounded fre-
10 quently at Feerozpore, his Excellency appeared to
11 The Governor. entertain the opinion here advanced; and even
12 aad the When the army crossed the Sutlej, no more than
13 sullert one medical officer was allowed to accompany
14 his regiment, since his services were much more
15 required at Feerozpore than with a healthy body
16 of men, who no longer stood in need of medical
17 aid. :
18 When performing his arduous and bounden
19 duties, often under great privations, there can be
20 nothing more gulling to a man of any feeling than
21 to find that his object is entirely mistaken by his
22 commanding officer who fancies he is enjoying
23 The military himself, and acting on this somewhat ridiculous
24 Seer en field Cds applies for another medical officer to take
25 & csasreeable Charoe of his regiment; military men can hardly
26 enter into such a feeling, but nevertheless the
27 occurrence has happened, and may do so again.
28 Nay more, while thus detached, and probably
29 not in possession of a single dooly, the surgeon is
30 all but reprimanded for not achieving impossibilities,
31 and a threat held out, that the subject will be
32 brought to the notice of higher authority !