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TREATMENT OF PARTS 



perhaps^ on no occasion has the thing been more 

 forcibly proved, than in the campaign of the 

 French army, about the period of the battle of 

 Eylau. During the three or four severely cold 

 days previous to this action, the mercury had 

 fallen to 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 degrees be- 

 low the zero of Reaumer^s thermometer; and 

 yet, until the second day after the battle, not a 

 soldier complained of any accident from the effect 

 of the cold. ' We had, however, (says Larrey,) 

 passed these days, and a great part of the nights 

 of the 5^A, ^th^ Ithy ^thy and ^th of February^ 

 in the snow, exposed to the most inclement 

 frost/ 



" In the night, however, between the ^th and 

 10^^, the temperature suddenly rose to 3, 4, 

 and 5 degrees above zero, accompanied with 

 sleet. A thaw then commenced, and from this 

 moment, numerous soldiers began to complain of 

 acute pain in their feet, numbness, sense of 

 heaviness, and annoying pricking pains in their 

 limbs. The parts were but little swelled, and 



