Some Further Observations on the Subject of the Proper Period for Ampulating in Gun-Shot Wounds; Accompanied by the Official Reports of the Surgeons Employed in His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at the Late Battle before Algiers

For some years past, the want of enemies on the ocean, and our brilliant battles by land, so eclipsed the laurels gathered at Camperdown, the Nile, and Trafalgar, that our navy was almost forgotten. At the conclusion, however, of a twenty years' war, a specimen of fides punica kindled the national feelings, and gave to our wooden Avails an opportunity of proving themselves ? quales ab incepto. In this last and dreadful conflict between the Cross and Crescent, the British naval thunder shook the Moslem minarets and Roman ruins to their foundations, while oceans of blood flowed on both sides! If as patriots, then, we exult in the triumph of our arms, and the destruction of slavery, we must, as men, deplore the hecatombs of human sacrifices by which that triumph and that redemption was purchased. Sunt lachrymjE rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt!