The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-17 00:00:00

DEPARTMENTAL MEMORANDUM.

The following list of medicines, surgical instruments,
surgical materials, medical comforts, hospital stores, and
means for the conveyance of sick and wounded, is fur-
nished to enable the medical officers of the army in
Turkey-
1. To ascertain the provision which has been made to
meet the wants of sick and wounded, and the materiel
which is with the army available for that purpose.
2. To report to me, through the Inspectoi-General of
Hospitals, what other articles, if any, may be advantage-
ously applied to the supplies which have been forwarded.
Special attention is requested to the carts and waggons
which have been furnished for the conveyance of sick and
wounded. No doubt, many defects will be discovered in
both, therefore the medical officers serving with the army
will, in all probability, have an opportunity of improving
upon appliances that are known theoretically only to the
British army, though practically to the French since 1792,
when a supply of light waggons, accompanied by a corps of
disciplined attendants, were sent into the field on the re-
commendation of the late renowned Baron Larry. But
notwithstanding the French have used so long what we are
now only beginning* to employ, still there is reason to be-
lieve much must yet be effected before we shall be able to
consider the object in view to have been satisfactorily
attained.
Medic.4l officers will, therefore, be pleased to report,
through the Inspector-General of Hospitals, whatever de-
fects they may discover in the vehicles which have now
been supplied; and also suggest whatever alterations, ad-
ditions, &c., they may think calculated to render them
more suitable and efficient
ANDREW SMITH, M.D. Director-General,
Army and Ordnance Medical Department.
13, St. James's-place, Juno 20, 1854.

PERSONNEL-(STAFF).
1 Inspector-General of Hospitals.
4 Deputy Inspectors-General of Hospitals.
12 Staff-Surgeons of the Ist Class.
13 Staff-Surgeons of the 2.1 Class.
48 Staff Assistant-Surgeons.
1 Chief Apothecary.
3 Dispensers of Medicines.

3 Purveyors.
6 Purveyors' Clerks.
2 Medical Clerks.

1 Cutler and hii Assistant.

,
PERSONNEL-01EGIMENTAL).

1 Surgeon and 3 Assistant-Surgeons to each regiment of
infantry (850 men).
1 Surgeon and 1 Assistant-Surgeon to every two squa-
drons of Cavalry (250 men).
1 Assistant• Surgeon to every troop of Horse Artillery.
1 Assistant•Surgoon to every Field Battery, and
1 Surgeon Ordnance Medical Department for General
Duties.
Total number of medical officers, 205. t

MATERIEL.
MEDICINES, INSTRUMENTS, ETC.

MEDICINES AND MEDICAL MATERIALS.
01. tiglii, llb
Opii contrit., 301bs
Pilul.aloccurn myrrh., 201bs
„ coloGyntb. comp., 100 lbs
„ hydrarg., 1001bs
„ comp., 101bs
Plumbi acetatis, 501bs
Potassa3 acetatis, 201bs
.„ bitartr. contr., 2001bs
„ nitratis, 1501bs
Pil. byd. iodid, slbs
Potassii iodidi, 501bs
Pulv. antinionii comp., 301bs
„ Jacob.,

Acsoim, contrit., 12G lbs
Acid, acetic., 124 lbs.
„ hydrochlor. 261ba
„ hydrocyhn, d., 1 lb.

nitric., lbs
„ sulphuric., 20 lbs
, tartar. coutrit.,loolbs
50 lbs
Aloes, 25 lbs.
Alum., 75 lbs
Ammoniac., 25 lbs
Ammonia) bydrochlor., 261bs
. sesquicarb., 124.1bs
1;;0 lbs
Anthemidis, 100 lbs
Antinnon,potassio-tart.,2slbs
Argeuti uitrat., 15 lbs
Boracis, 10 lbs
Calcis chlorivat., 300 lbs
Camphor, 50 lbs
Cerro alb e, 15 lbs
Cerati dalaminva, 2,000 lbs
„ cetacei, 1,000 lbs

islbs

Palv. cretin comp., 1001ba
PP Cum opio,
10-11bs

Puly,lipocacuanha

1501 b; _
Quince disulphatie, 1301ba
Cinchonife disulph., 401bs
Rhei coutrit., 10J1bs
Secal. coraut. slbs
Semi:mon. contrit., 101bs
&like recen. exsicc., contr.,

„ resihre, WO lbs.
Chloroform, 180 lbs
Confect., armnat., 50 lbs
„ opii, 50 lbs
„ rosin, 50 lbs
Copaibm, 250 lbs •
Creasoti, 5 lbs
Cretm ppt. 501bs
Cubsbar. contrit., 100 lbs
Capri sulph., 20 lbs
Emplastr. canthar id.' 500 lbs
hydrarg., 201bs
501bs
resinm, 7501bs
Extract. bolladonnre 7
„ conii, 12Albs
„ hyosciami, 101 b
„ sarsx li quid. ,10Ldbs
Ferri sulphatis, Albs
llydrarg. bichlorid., slbs
chloridi, 1001bs
„ cum eras, 301bs
Jalapa contrit.,lsUlbs
lodinii, 101bs
Ipecacuan. contrit., 751bs
Li ii sL:ruis. farin., 3,0001bs
Lisiment, saponis, 2501bs
Liquor, Ammon., 501bs
„ plum bi di acetat. 1501bs
„ potass. arscnit., 21bs
„ sodas chlorinat.lsolbs
Magaesim, 1311 as
carbon., 251bs
sulphat, 40 cwt.
Morphia acetatis,
„ hydrochlor., 91bs
01. menthaa piperita, Has
„ morrhure, 29Glbs
„ olive, 2501bs
secundi, 501bs.
„ ricini, I,ooolbs
~ torebinthinaa, 2001bs

201bs
Sennm, 2001bs
Sinapis contriti, 1001bs
Soda bicarbon.,
, potassio-tart., contr.,
1261bs
Spirit. wtheris comp., 1001bs
„ „ nitrici, 1001bs
„ ammon. aromat. 501bs
„ rectificat. 400 imp.pts
Syrup. terri iodidi, 9lbs.
Tinct. camphor comp.lsolbs
„ cardam. comp., 150.bs
„ catechu. comp., 1001bs
„ colchici, 501bs
„ ditto comp., 401bs
„ digitalis, 201bs
„ • ferri sesquichlor.,2olbs
„ gentian. comp., 501bs
„ guiaiae. comp., 501bs
„ byosciami, 501bs
„ iodinii comp., 501bs
„ myrrh, 601bs
„ opii, 2,5011;s
„ rhei comp., 2501bs
„ ecill e, 1001bs
„ sennm comp., 1001bs
„ matico, 3lbs
„ zedoar. et aloes, 12 qts
Vin. colchici, 501bs

„ ipecac., 501bs
„ opii, 3,11bs
Ung. dydrarg., 2501bs
nitrat., 251bs
„ sulphur, clomp. 1261bs
Ointment (albinolO), 101bs
Ziuci. sulph., Nibs
Ziugiber. contrit., 51b3

INSTRUMENTS, SUItGI
Capital instruments, 22 full
sets
Ditto, portable, 80 sets
Midwifery in struments,2 sets
Pocket instruments, 100 full
sets
Ditto, 43 small ditto
Cupping instruments, 50 sets
scarificators, 50 sets
PI „ temple, 9 sets
Tooth instruments, 25 sets
Lancets, cases of 6, 50 sets
„ cases of 4, 75 sets
Needles, crooked, 50 cases
71 common, 1000
Bougies, flexible metallic,
15 cases
Catheters, silver, 75
„ female, 6
Stomach pumps, 24 cases
Syringes, pewter urethra,
250 cases
~ glass ditto, 30 cases
„ elastic gum, 9
pewter clyater and
pipes 40
Spare pipes for ditto 40
Apparatus, hydrocele,9 cases
', suspended anima-
tion, 5 cases
Ellis's apparatus for frac-
tured clavicle, 12

[CAL MATBRIALS,
2 oz. narrow-mouth square-
stoppered bottles, 18 doz.
4 oz ditto ditto, 12 dozen
8 oz ditto ditto, 6 dozen
6 oz stoppered bottles, 6
dozen
1 oz ditto, 6 dozen
2 oz ditto, 6 dozen
1 oz wide-mouth vials, 8 doz
2 oz ditto, 8 dozen
4 oz ditto, 8 dozen
8 oz ditto, square, 8 dozen
India rubber air or water
bed, 1
Crescent-shaped water cush-
ions, 26
Square ditto ditto, 25
Circular ditto ditto, 35
Crescent-shaped air ditto, 11
Square air cushions, 35
Circular air ditto, '25
Divided ditto, 9
Lint, Taylor's, 2,500 lbs
„ second, 2,500 lbs
„ Bowen's fine, 2,500 lbs
„ second, 2,500 lbs
Surgeon's tow, 3,0001bs
Old linen sheets, 500
Skins of leather, 500
Prepared lamb for fomenta-
tions, 20
, Linen spread with adhesive

4. The late Director• General, Sir James McGrigor, Bart.,
K.C.8., whose sagacity, foresight, and capacity of devising
efficient means and arrangements for the welfare and safety of
the sick and wounded of an army, and who was, and still is—
on account of these and other qualifications he possessed to an
unrivalled degrec—the admired of all who desired
and yet desire, pcdniam qui meruit ferat, made, whilst ho
was chief of the medical department of the army in the Pen-
insula, repeated efforts to have an ambulance corps, similar
to what he saw iu use with the French, attached to the British
force, but without success.
I feel it imperative ou me to state this fact, and further to
record that the army now in Turkey, which her Majesty's
Government has permitted me to supply iu the most liberal
manner with everything likely to prove advantageous to the
interests of such sick and wounded as may occur, has actually
been furnished with many of the most important articleS at
the recommendation of my venerated predecessor, who,though
in the 8 ith year of his ago, has afforded me during the last
four months the advantage of his 58 years' experience in the
public service, and so made me feel more at ease under the im-
portant and responsible duties I had to discharge than other-
wise I should have done.
t During the Peninsular War rather more thaii one-third,
but not quite one-half, of the medical officers of the =lay
were generally ineffective from sickness, &c ; therefore, as
there is no reason to expect less disease will occur iu Turkey,
there must be, in addition to the above, a reserve of 68
medical officers to supply the places of such as become ugat
tpr duty, •