The Tale of a Field Hospital

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Portrait of Frederick Treves
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 are many to whom it still remains the most tragic memory of their lives.
War is ever the same: an arena, aglare with pomp and pageant, for the display of that most elemental and most savage of human passions, the lust to kill, as well as a dumb torture place where are put to the test man's fortitude and his capacity for the endurance of pain.