MEDICAL MEN AND MEDICINE.
To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross. Sir, — Can you inform me, through, the medium of your able columns, how it is that there is such a lack of medical officers in the colonial forces, and even where there are medical men they have no medicines ? Ever since the first commencement of that new force, calledthe Expeditionary Force, there never has been a proper supply of medicines. If a man has been sick with fever, it's always, "Give him salts j " if a severe cold, it is a dose of ".-alts;" and so on — nothing but "salts:" Fometimes, for a change, a couple of pills, with "fit for duty " attached to the man's name, and at the same time the same man is scarcely able to stand up through weakness. Here I have myself been suffering very much ; indeed, the doctors, I believe, recommended me to be discharged as unfit for service ; but, while awaiting my discharge, they have no medicine to give me. Now, sir, is this a proper way to look to the health and comfort of men, who have to stand very heavy marches, walking across deep rivers, and lying with wet clothes on for nights, and also being on guards for 12 or 24 hours with wet clothes on all the time ? — I have, &c , An Old Soldier. East Coast, January 26, 1866.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2676, 13 February 1866, Page 6
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