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and in June, 1854, he was appointed one of the commission 
under the command of Colonel Kinloch to proceed to Spain, 
to purchase mules for the service of the army in the Crimea. 
During his travels, the previous medical knowledge he had 
obtained, rendered him eminently serviceable to the officers 
and men employed on this duty, who were more or less 
attacked with illness ; besides propitiating the jealous and 
bigoted Spaniards, by rendering to them medical aid, and 
thus materially advancing the object of the commission. On 
his arrival at Valencia the cholera was raging with intensity, 
and many of the Spanish doctors had fled from the pesti- 
lence ; those that remained, with whom he came into contact, 
were administering to their patients most ridiculous remedies, 
principally Syrup of Saffron and inert confections. He 
promptly adopted the English methods of treatment with the 
most marked success, by saving many. 
From this port he embarked with the last detachment of 
mules for the Crimea. His services in this duty elicited the 
most marked approval from the late Lord Raglan, as well as 
from the home authorities. He remained in the Crimea as 
Staff Veterinary Surgeon, until, suffering from acute rheu- 
matism brought on by exposure and fatigue, he was invalided 
by a medical board, and sent home to recruit his shattered 
health. 
Having partially recovered, he applied to be sent out again, 
and exchanged to the 1st Royal Dragoons, with which regiment 
he did duty until attacked with fever at the winter quarters 
of the cavalry at Scutari. Here he met with Mrs. Roberts, 
the well-known “ Sister George,” late of St. Thomas’s. This 
excellent and clever woman, after superintending the accident 
ward at St. Thomas’s for many years, retired on a pension, 
but when the tale of misery came home that our brave army 
was melting away before “disease, incompetence, and neg- 
lect,” and Miss Nightingale flew to the rescue, “ Sister 
George” volunteered her services, and at once became this 
lady’s most valuable assistant. She received the young 
soldier in the hospital, and nursed him with even a mother’s 
care. She closed his eyes in death, and had the melancholy 
satisfaction of rendering to him those kind services he had so 
often administered to others. 
H. B. E. 
[The above was received by us too late for insertion in the 
last number. — Editors.] 
