A Mighty Rush of Wind
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» lollies100 - Medicine in the Crimean war
John, I see that you tackle now 'special topics' of the crimean war. Do you plan to do 'something' with the medical aspects. For example the introduction of chloroform (that dr Hall found not necessary for the soldiers); the introduction of dr Anton Mathijsen's improvement of the plaster dressing of fractured limbs. The state of the art on 'miasma' and its effect on cholera and typhus? By the way, am I right to say that what in earlier days were called 'typhus' and 'typhoic fever' are now 'salmonella infections'?Dr Lucien Baudens, inspector for the French army in the Crimea, mentioned in his report his own 'boîte à fractures'used in the reduction of fractured limbs, thus preventing amputation; do you have an idea what was meant by this?
-New styling : I see that the articles are now spilt up in pages; is this new? I remarked it for the first time now
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Herman
-- posted by lollies100
» John_Barr - Re: Medicine in the Crimean war
In response to Medicine in the Crimean war posted by lollies100:Herman, I cannot add much to the bulletin I posted on my Welcome Page at the end of last month. Basically my tenure along with that of all the other Suite 101 writers terminated on 1st November. What the new formats will be from the 1st December has yet to be divulged, but one thing is certain; The Crimean War will no longer exist as a subject although the Suite management have announced that all articles currently available on the Suite will be archived and accessible via an appropriate broad subject heading.
This announcement was unexpected and came at an unfortunate moment for me, having just returned home from a heart bypass operation, and with one week to write the equivalent of three articles on the Railway, originally scheduled out to January. Still, it kept my mind off my scar! But sadly this will be the last subject I am able to cover here. Strangely enough, Medicine was to be my next - there was a lecture this week at the Royal College of Surgeons which I had originally meant to attend, but in the event because of the timing of my op would not have been able to travel to London for anyway. So to date I have not done any detailed study to be able to shed light on your as usual perceptive questions. I hadn't heard of the 'boite a fractures'; probably like Pirogov some French surgeons were experimenting with methods of retaining reset bones in position in cases of simple fractures.
Yes the division of articles into pages of 400 words was a measure announced shortly before Suite Management decided to rethink the whole concept.
It's perhaps appropriate now to thank you formally for animating the discussion pages here at times almost single handedly, and always with appropriate and interesting questions. Also of course for your series of articles on the Sardinian Army, providing detail previously not readily available in English. We must keep in touch.
-- posted by John_Barr
» lollies100 - Re: Re: Medicine in the Crimean war
John,Sad to hear that you had health problems. I hope you will do as good as my father-in-law, who got his 3 bypasses in 1980 and who still is going well at 83 now (still alive and -no- not kicking). Almost as sad to hear this series about the Crimean War is now abruptly ended. After I made a presentation about the Crimean War in March last year I thrift somewhat away from the subject but gradually came back because the period of the French 2nd Empire and the Victorian Period in Great Britain are so close to our own time and so different in other ways. I have followed your earlier advise and became in 2004 member of the CWRS - albeit a passive, silent member - I see that your name is also on the member's list. I also have your e-mail adresss and you have mine, so if ever we feel the need we can still contact each other. I have admired the way you handled this heavy duty task for 6 years and my experience with the Sardinian story learnt me how difficult this job was. I enjoyed your series very much and I thank you for the many hours of interesting reading it brought to us.
Herman
-- posted by lollies100
» John_Barr - Re: Re: Re: Medicine in the Crimean war
In response to Re: Re: Medicine in the Crimean war posted by lollies100:Many thanks for your kind comments which I really appreciate. I will endeavour to follow your father-in-law's example - everything going well so far, anyway!
-- posted by John_Barr
» lollies100 - Re: Re: Re: Re: Medicine in the Crimean war
John,'With a mighty rush of the wind' came to me the 84th volume of the 'Navy Records Society'; the Baltic Official Correspondence of 1855. Their volumes 32 (1906), 38 (1909), and 39(1910)contain the 'Letters and Papers of Charles, Lord Barham'. Yes????
Herman
-- posted by lollies100
» John_Barr - Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Medicine in the Crimean war
In response to Re: Re: Re: Re: Medicine in the Crimean war posted by lollies100:No relation sadly - he was actually Charles Middleton, and First Sea Lord at the time of the Battle of Trafalgar, after which a generous government created him a Baron - his main estates were at Barham in Kent so he chose that name for his barony. I did actually gain some kudos as a very small boy during the war as the only one in the school with a battleship named after me!! Sadly it was sunk most tragically with a direct hit on the magazine and the loss of all hands in the subsequent colossal explosion, off Gibralter I think in 1942.
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