Life and letters of DrWilliam Beaumont, including hitherto unpublished data concerning the case of Alexis StMartin . ly approach being through two arched sally ports,eacb of which was provided with a portcullis that could be dropped 5 Surgeons and assistant surgeons were ranked as commissioned officers inthe matter of choice of quarters—surgeons next after majors, assistant surgeonsof over ten years service with captains, etc. The officers stone quarters andtin- small frame hospital still stand, and are very well preserved. The 50 by 20 feet, consisted of two small wards, a vestib
Life and letters of DrWilliam Beaumont, including hitherto unpublished data concerning the case of Alexis StMartin . ly approach being through two arched sally ports,eacb of which was provided with a portcullis that could be dropped 5 Surgeons and assistant surgeons were ranked as commissioned officers inthe matter of choice of quarters—surgeons next after majors, assistant surgeonsof over ten years service with captains, etc. The officers stone quarters andtin- small frame hospital still stand, and are very well preserved. The 50 by 20 feet, consisted of two small wards, a vestibule, and a smallkitchen. 1820 1822—On Duty at tlu Old Fori 87 instantly in case of attack. The walls were of stone and pointedcedar pickets, about ten feet high, tipped with three-pronged spikeswherever scaling was possible. There were rows of Loop-holes,through which firing could be carried on when fighting oft theenemy, and a few pieces of artillery were mounted in medical officers were required at this time to make not onlymonthly reports as to tin1 medical supplies on hand, cases in the. South sally ]Mirt of the old fort at Mackinac, forming the south gate. (Froma wuml cut in Annals i f Fort Mackinac, by Dwight H. Kelton.) hospital, etc., hut a diary of the weather as well. Beaumontmanifested considerable interest in his reports on weather conditions,as well as in the botanical specimens and geological formationswhich he found here. On September 30, 1820, for instance, hewrites to the surgeon-general :; I can not forbear expressing a deep sense of Chagrin at being underthe necessity of transmitting the copy of such an imperfect, awkward anduseless Diary of the Weather, principally for a want of means of moreaccurate Thermometrical observations. The observations on the course ,; Files in surgeon-generals office. 88 Life and Letters of Dr. William Beaumont of the wind and appearance of the Atmosphere have been accuratelytaken and correctly copied. Being i
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