. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . able and what was possible. At the beginning of the war, each regimental surgeon wasfurnished with a suitable equipment for his regiment for fieldservice, in quantities regulated by the supply table. Thistable, which was revised about a year later, seemed to contem-plate the medical and surgical outfitting of regiments on thebasis of independent service, and when they became brigadedmuch of the equipment so supplied was found to be not onlyunduly heavy and cumbrous but also unnecessary. The medical and surgical material available o
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . able and what was possible. At the beginning of the war, each regimental surgeon wasfurnished with a suitable equipment for his regiment for fieldservice, in quantities regulated by the supply table. Thistable, which was revised about a year later, seemed to contem-plate the medical and surgical outfitting of regiments on thebasis of independent service, and when they became brigadedmuch of the equipment so supplied was found to be not onlyunduly heavy and cumbrous but also unnecessary. The medical and surgical material available on the firing-line was practically that carried by the surgeon in his case,known as the surgeons field companion, and by his orderlyin the hospital knapsack, a bulky, cumbersome affair weigh-ing, when filled, about twenty pounds. Wounds were expected—nay. encouraged—to suppurate,and that they could heal without inflammation was undreamedof by the keenest surgical imagination. Their repair was al-ways expected to be a slow, painful, and exhausting
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