New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-26

! Medical Department O.the army. andis cordially
seconded by tho experienced visitors Of tho
Sanitary Commission; and that the principal
nurses orc ladios-wbo would DO panod to
see their names in print-whcse time aud means
have been spent ever since tho war begun in
untiring and self-sacrficng devotion at the
belstes of the sick and wounded soldiers. where
the suffering and dying have welcomed them as
Numbering angels. None but the soldier knows
how much the country owes TO ladies OF this
character who have abandoned luxurious homes
and sacrificed the pleasantest and most erdearing
sociai relations to assume the labOriols, and
often repulsive duties Of hospital nurses, at their
own charges, aud with no other reward tian the
sweet conviction that they wcro serving their
country, and assuaging the agonies OF ITS brave
defenders. The partisan rancor That can ior'
get such noble service, and can attempt 10 ex-
cite base and unrcasouing prejudice against
women who, at such cost TO themselves, have
mitigated something of tho horrors OF war, and
have poured balm into the wounds OF those who
but for them must have persisted miserabiy. Is
beyond all humane appeal. Such men must have
for,4Aten tina. they ever had mothers, and are to
be pitied for their unhappy ignorance Of how
true and tender and divincly good woman oan
sometimes be.
The simple fact about this hospital at Beverly
is this, The surgeon and the nurses know how
absolutely essential it is to The comfort and re-
covery VI the soldiers in their charge that the
utmost care should to used in regard to diet,
regularity, and quiet. They do not. therefore,
throw open the hospital. to curious crowd,
moved, partly, by the novelty of wards full OF
sick and wounded--for hospital ia Il new thing
at Beyerly-aDd partly. no doubt, by humane,
though as Is often the case under such circum-
stances. transient wish to relieve suffering.
This indiscriminate visiting aud unwise minis
tering TO the patients arc not, as uey certainly
should not BIZ, permitted. Under tho skiliiul
and wise direction Of the surgeon everything Is
done, that ought to be and can be
done, for ths comfort end cure OF
the sick and wounded men, and be-
cause it is not allowed TO set aside
those essential regulations and sanitary
measures which must obtain In every well-con-
Quoted Hospital, and idle curiosity and ill-di-
rected commseration given full swing, this sense
less clamor Is raised, to which an INSCRIPTIONS
journal is ready enough TO give currency by the
most false and cruel insinuations for mere
party purpose. There have beer, aud no doubt
are still, army hospitals and army surgeons and
nurses. under whose care the sutferings of SOL
diers have been aggravated, rot relieved, and
where authenticated cases occur. they are
rghtfully held up to public reprobation. But
the ey,l, 10 far as it exists, is only intensified
and put beyond the reach ofpubbc censurc by
indiscriminate condemnation, ard by accepting
a. true, such charges without tho most careful
and impartial examinations. That they are utter
y reckless and groundless in the case OF the
Beverly Hospital we know. aud the example IL
a good one with which to point moral.