The primitive working conditions army surgeons had to contend with when in the field are portrayed in a print emphasising Clowers’s own observation that surgeons above all needed a good eye, a strong arm and a stout heart. The pint shows a surgeon probling for the bullet in the shoulder of a soldier injured by a gunshot wound, who is being restrained by a colleague or a surgeon’s assistant (Plate 3.21) ~ Page 132
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