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Military Surgery
Author(s) -
Gregg C. Bruce
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
anz journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.426
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 1445-1433
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2008.04508.x
Subject(s) - medicine , citation , library science , computer science
of the valuable museum which he has established at Chatham, such a course would be conducted with peculiar advantage. In Dublin, from the extent of the garrison, and the number of troops employed in that part of the United Kingdom, facilities of the most important kind would be given for such a course ; and in Edinburgh, where the medical students are numerous and closely concentrated, experience has already proved that there is sufficient field and sufficient encouragement for a course of military surgery." It will be seen from the following extract from the speech of the Secretary-at-War, the Honourable Sidney Herbert, on proposing the army estimates this year, that this subject has at length attracted the attention of the authorities at head quarters. "The honourable and gallant member for Westminster had very truly said that there was not at present any sufficient means of education for the