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 35(lilE WINTER Ti;0Ul3LES. CHAPTER XI. SEQUEL OF THE DISPOSITIONS MADE BY THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH FOR THE CARE OF THEIR SICK AND WOUNDED. CHAP. Wr saw how well the Administrators of the •^^' French army made provision for their troops TheFrem^h when disabled by sickness or wounds, and the Hoapitals. J _ . subsequent falling off that took place in their hospital management was a change not embraced in the period with which this history deals. II. Allusion to What baffled our people when yearning to do maVaXin-'''^ all they could for their sick and wounded troops tifeEnTiish was indeed, as we saw, the very simplest of Hospitals, ca^useg — that is, the sheer non-existence of any sufficient State engine built up in good time for The nature the purpose ; and accordingly, the real task in of the task ,5 1 . 1 . ..1 in hand: hand was — not so much to reform, but — rather — all at once to create. Yet, if custom were still to hold sway, the Innovator would have to