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HERRINGHAM, SIR WILMOT PARKER. Physician in France. (Liverpool diocesan board of divinity publications) *$5 (*15s) Longmans 940.475
(Eng ed 19–19873)
“Preliminary to this narrative the author discusses the surprise of the English at the sudden outbreak of the war. After this preliminary discussion he, in his fifth chapter, begins his personal narrative and relates the early operations of the medical corps in England at the beginning of the war, showing us how the thing was done and the sanitary precautions that were made against sickness among the forces. Continuing, he tells of the organization and work of the Field ambulance corps; of the clearing stations; of the work of transporting the wounded and of the base hospitals and nurses. He then discusses some phases of medical work, especially the management of cases of enteric and other fevers, and of shell shock. He talks of the advance of medicine in the war, of the operations on the plains of Flanders: of the medical headquarters at Hesdin. Diverging, the author, drawing from his experiences abroad, tells of education and the religious question in France and of some interesting contrasts between French and English people, in domestic manners and management and in human characteristics.”—Boston Transcript
“The reasons for his popularity will be apparent to anyone who reads his book, for it exhibits in an attractive form the qualities of his mind and general outlook.”
+ Ath p1401 D 26 ’19 520w + Boston Transcript p10 F 21 ’20 480w
“It is written in ordinary, straightforward language, free from those amateur attempts at the literary manner which make most books written by doctors so tedious. Much of the book is political, and this, except as throwing light on the character of the author, is the least important part. The most entertaining part of the book consists in the record of the author’s observations of French life and its contrasts with our own.” H. R.
+ Nation [London] 26:360 D 6 ’19 1350w
“Entertaining and instructive. The purely medical chapters of the book have their value as a lucid exposition calculated to enlighten the layman and to enlist his sympathy.”