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Gunner Attoe has a scar from shoulder to elbow as 

 a memento. 



On the subject of spear wounds, how to inflict 

 and cure them, Captain Petit is the great authority. 



Broken bones I have little to say about. They 

 take their usual course, and probably end up 

 crooked. 



I have never been able to persuade any doctor 

 to take any interest in broken ribs. I have at 

 different times broken one, three and two ribs, and 

 the only people I have been able to get to take the 

 slightest concern in them were the Insurance 

 Companies. They, I admit, by their sympathetic 

 inquiries displayed quite an old-world courtesy in 

 the matter. 



As regards fever you can take one step to pro- 

 tect yourself, and that is get inoculated. Enteric 

 inoculation is the greatest boon ever conferred 

 on English soldiers in India. Formerly where I 

 have had 5 per cent of my men ill, and dangerously 

 ill, I have now, at most, 1 or 2 per cent ill in 

 hospital from any cause whatever — most of the 

 casualties being, I am glad to think, due to accidents. 



You may bump against plague or cholera at any 

 time. Inoculation will safeguard you against the 

 former. 



Captain Forsyth, R.F.A., and I spent a wretched 

 night once in camp with a syce who had plague and 

 died next day. It was pelting with rain, and the 

 poor fellow would get up in his delirium and try to 

 walk about. His own people were not very keen 

 on handling him. We were inoculated when we 

 got back to civilization. 



A kindred subject to inoculation is water- 

 drinking. Personally I regard it as the duty of a 



