Identifier: russojapanesewar00grea (find matches)
Title: The Russo-Japanese war : medical and sanitary reports from officers attached to the Japanese and Russian forces in the field, General staff, War office, April 1908
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Great Britain. War Office MacPherson, William Grant, Sir, 1858-1927
Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 Military hygiene
Publisher: London : Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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la.It was in charge of one of the apothecaries, and was wellequipped for detailed analysis of air, water, food, drugs, &c.Some of the equipment was improvised. For example, anempty kerosene tin was used in connection with the analysis ofair, tubes being conveniently fixed for aspirating the air to beexamined into it. It was a convenient apparatus on accountof the ease with which its capacity can be measured. Dispensary.—The old Russian hospital dispensary was usedas the dispensary, and was admirably organized, with a waiting-room for persons waiting to have prescriptions dispensed, andlockers for each ward into which the prescriptions from theward were placed by the ward orderly, and from which heeventually took away the medicines when they were made up.By this simple arrangement, the ward orderlies wasted notime hanging about the dispensary, but came back at a fixedtime for the medicines. To ftuxy pc^g^ ?43 BASE HOSPITAL,PALNY. SKETCH of BOILING COPPERS forOLD DRESSINC MATERIAL
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T %■> 15 square III Sx>~ N 8 rr Diameter of small copper » 2 f. /ar^e „ =* -?#//Construction. Brick with 4to 6concrete on topd Platform for washing dressings MEDICAL.—REPORT 12. 243 Arrangement for utilizing Dressings that had been used.—Much of the dressing material, such as bandages and gauze,was used over and over again by simply boiling, washing, andbleaching ; and afterwards sterilizing before use. For this purposean excellent boiling and washing place was constructed, inappearance not unlike the destructor designed for hospitalsin South Africa by Colonel Rawson, R.E. The material wasfirst thoroughly washed on the concrete platforms, then boiledin the coppers with soda, and afterwards bleached with chlorideof lime. Wards.—These varied according to the nature of the buildingoccupied. The main ward building of the Russian hospital hadbeen burnt down, but the Japanese were rebuilding it. Twolarge ward pavilions, however, remained. They had two wings,each wing formin

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