Memoirs And Correspondence of Francis Horner Mp volume 2
Memoirs And Correspondence of Francis Horner Mp volume 2
Francis Horner
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Ever most affectionately yours, Fra. Horner. Letter CCXLIII. FROM CHARLES BELL, ESQ. * My dear Horner, 'Jub'. I8i5. I write this to you, after being some days at home, engaged in my usual occupations, and conse- quently disenchanted of the horrors of the battle of Waterloo. I feel relief in this, for certainly if I had written to you from Brussels, I should have appeared very extravagant. An absolute revolution took j)liice in my economy, body and soul ; so that I who am known to require eight ...hours sleep, found first three hours, and then one hour and a half sufficient, after days of the most painful excitement and bodily exertion. After I had been five days engaged with the prosecu- tion of my object, I found that the best cases, that is, the most horrid wounds left totally without assistance, * The late eminent anatomist, Sir Charles Bell. 284 CORRESPONDENCE. [1815. Were to be found in the hospital of the French woimded. This hospital was only forming ; they were even then bringing these poor creatures in from the woods.
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