SIR IAN HAMILTON.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 January 1922, Page 2

SIR IAN HAMILTON.

AD VICK TO HOSPITAL STALKS. '‘London. December ltd Sii (an Hamilton's instincts, d would appear, as evinced last night at die Hums Club lecture in Lombm, were not even repressed during crili-' cal. days in Gallipoli. Thinking it necessary, then to check the “enervating influences” exercised, by hospital ship nurses on sick and wounded officers, he issued a memorandum inculcating the importance of medical officers ami nurses maintaining a, hearty tune oi optimism calculated to raise rallier than to lower the Confidence and courage of the lighting men. ' .

’ Tills circular must be a War Office curiosity, for it proceeded as follows: “‘Canst thou ntd minister to a mind diseas’d ’ Thus Machcth inquires of the physician who, too 'diffident, re-

plies. ‘Therein the patient must minister to himself.’ Hut our hospitals at. Madras have proved"to us that those who minister to the’."body diseased are best qualified at the same time to. ‘raze <>m the troubles of the brain.’ hot medhad bliicers and nurses on hospital ships and ambulance carriers so *4 io it iliat, under, all trials, they surround their sick.and wounded with an atmosphere of enthusiasm and of invincible hope.”