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Mi. Edward Arnold's 

 SPRING 



ANNOUNCEMENTS, I915 



A SURGEON IN BELGIUM. 



By H. S. SOUTTAR, F.R.C.S., 



Assistant Surgeon West London Hospital. 



One Volume. Demy 8vo. 



The author of this interesting and vivid narrative was one of 

 the surgeons in charge of the British Field Hospital for 

 Belgium, which began its work in Antwerp last September with 

 150 beds, and a staff of eight doctors and twenty nurses. On 

 October gth, in view of the German occupation, the hospital had 

 to leave Antwerp. The retirement was effected in good order, 

 over 100 wounded patients being removed in seven motor-buses. 

 A fresh start was made at Furnes, where the hospital is still 

 (January, 19 15) at work, acting as the official Field Hospital 

 of the Belgian Army. Furnes is only a few miles behind the 

 trenches in the firing line, and the work of the hospital differed 

 therefore considerably in character from that of the Base 

 hospitals ; in some cases important operations were carried out 

 within an hour of the patient being wounded. The position of 

 the hospital also made the work particularly exciting from a 

 military point of view, and its independence of the British 

 medical organisation brought up many novel problems of supply 

 and maintenance. During his stay in Belgium the author had 

 occasional opportunities of visiting several places already famous 

 in the history of the war, such as Termonde, Malines, Purvies, 

 and Ypres, and the scenes he witnessed are described with such 

 graphic fidelity that the deep impression they made upon him at 

 the time are conveyed to the reader without any loss of reality. 



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