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"I suppose you heard about Hayward, didn't you?" "I know he went to the Cape." "He died, you know, soon after landing." For a moment Philip did not answer. He could hardly believe his ears. "How?" he asked. "Oh, enteric. Hard luck, wasn't it? I thought you mightn't know. Gave me a bit of a turn when I heard it." Lawson nodded quickly and walked away. Philip felt a shiver pass through his heart.
Next day, March 1, General Buller and his staff rode in. 'I have only to add that, by the good hand of God upon me, I have been preserved all through from sickness and disease. Of all things the men dreaded enteric. 'My lad, said Mr. Hordern to one of the men who had just come into hospital, 'have you got enteric fever? 'No, sir, was the reply; 'I am only wounded.
"You seem awfully well and prosperous, Robert. And a sight better looking." Stonehouse laughed. All he said in reply was: "And you look prosperous and ill. What was it? Enteric?" Cosgrave shrugged his thin shoulders. He was still flamboyantly red-headed and generously freckled, but now that the first flush of excitement had ebbed, his face showed a parchment yellow.
In 1900 she volunteered as a nurse during the war, and went out to the Cape. Here she was employed to nurse sick Boer prisoners. But her work was done. Enteric fever struck her down and, before long, the traveller had set out upon her last journey. The names we have mentioned have been those of famous travellers women whose work is part of the history of discovery.
They had been pressed by hunger, horseflesh was already running short, and they had been decimated by disease. More than 2000 cases of enteric and dysentery had been in hospital at one time, and the total number of admissions had been nearly as great as the total number of the garrison. One-tenth of the men had actually died of wounds or disease.
"Damn, oh damn," said Jimmy. "Precisely," agreed Monty. We walked on, till we reached an array of square tents that formed No. 16 Stationary Hospital. Here pale and emaciated men were wandering in pyjamas between tents marked "Dysentery," "Enteric," and "Infectious Wards." "Damn," repeated Jimmy.
According to a comment in the Lancet, there was no way that the patient could have artificially produced this temperature, and during convalescence the thermometer used registered normal as well as subnormal temperatures. Caesar speaks of a girl of fifteen with enteric fever, whose temperature, on two occasions 110 degrees F., reached the limit of the mercury in the thermometer.
"I mentioned it to Van Zyl, because it struck me I had about knocked their Royal British moral endways. "'No, says he, rocking as usual on his pony. 'My Captain Mankeltow he is sick. That is all. "'So's your Captain Mankeltow's guns, I said. 'But I'm going to make 'em a heap sicker before he gets well. "'No, says Van Zyl. 'He has had the enteric a little.
'But we got the gun, Paley whispered, and he spoke for the Brigade. Amid the shell-fire, the scanty rations, the enteric and the dysentery, one ray of comfort had always brightened the garrison. Buller was only twelve miles away they could hear his guns and when his advance came in earnest their sufferings would be at an end.
'Why do you let 'em die? asked a young soldier by way of a grim joke, pointing to two dead soldiers close to him, while he himself was suffering from enteric. 'Why don't you look after 'em better? 'What can I do? I know nothing about nursing! was the sad reply. Just so! That was the difficulty there was no one to prevent them dying. How many might have been saved if such had been the case!
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