CHAPTER XI.

THE HORRORS OF THE HOSPITAL.

Some of my Hospital Cases--A Death from Jaundice--Small-pox and Typhoid Fever--Hospital Gangrene--Waiting for the Burial Parties--Horrible Depression--I am slightly wounded--Turkish Florence Nightingales--A Ghastly Case--I am powerless for want of Stores--The Men die off like Sheep--Arrival of a Party of English Doctors--A Welcome Visit--Dr. Bond Moore and Dr. Mackellar--Dr. George Stoker Sick--Interview with Osman Pasha--His Reception of the English Doctors--Osman Pasha's Position--The English Doctors indignant--Osman Pasha justified--A Ride to the Krishin Redoubts--The English Doctors under Fire--My Reasons for leaving Plevna--A Farewell Supper--Mustapha Bey and the Whisky--The Departure of the Wounded--Good-bye to Plevna 277