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Updated: June 3, 2025
In a subsequent letter addressed to myself, Sir Charles has given me the names of those urgent diseases, which he considers may be treated by a mother "where a medical man cannot be procured quickly, or not at all." They are Croup: Inflammation of the Lungs; Diptheria; Dysentry; Diarrhoea; Hooping Cough, in its various stages; and Shivering Fit.
This wet weather, coupled with a previous shortage of water in the trenches, and the generally unhealthy state of the salient, brought a considerable amount of sickness and slight dysentry, and although we did not send many to Hospital, the health of the Battalion on the whole was bad, and we seemed to have lost for the time our energy.
"There's me lovely mate lying there dying of the dysentry," says the Flour, "and you've got to fix him up and bring him round." 'Then he shook his fist in the doctor's face and said "If you let that lovely man die look out!" 'The doctor was startled. He backed off at first; then he took a puff at his cigar, stepped forward, had a careless look at Dinny, and gave some order to the attendants.
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