The surgeon Frederick Treves served as consulting surgeon with the British troops in Natal during the South African War. He describes the field hospital under canvas, the arrival of the wounded after battle, the work of the surgeons and orderlies, the patience of the men, the heat, dust and enteric fever, and the abandoned farms of the veld.
A humane, unsparing account of war’s cost by the surgeon best remembered for befriending Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man. Download the free EPUB.