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Excerpt from The Sick and Wounded in South Africa: What I Saw and Said of Them and of the Army Medical System
The writ of that Court runs far; and its strength never found a more apt illustration than was supplied by the magic transformation. Scene, which took place throughout the hospitals in South Africa, the moment the search-light of publication and debate was thrown on their condition. The cable does its work quickly; and within less than a week there was hardly a soldier amongst the many thousands still in hospital who did not feel the effects of the significant change.
It may be that public opinion has a still more important service to perform in this matter than the temporary improvement already effected. It can hardly be questioned that a drastic reform of the whole Army Medical system is urgently demanded; but 'it may require a greater propelling force than is to be found in official or departmental projects of reorganisation. In that case it is not likely that public opinion will grudge its aid to the cause of humanity and the future welfare of the Army.
No attempt has been made in this book to draw up a thorough scheme of reform; but it contains a fairly complete enumeration of the features that need to be reformed, and some suggestions of the lines on which reform should proceed. The framework of such a scheme, which is given at the end of the book, is not difficult to construct, but in many parts it naturally requires a close acquaintance with executive possibilities and administrative detail, and demands, particularly in the scientific status of Army doctors, the practical judgment of the most enlightened and independent members of the medical profession.
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