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TICE NEGLECTED SURGEONS AT SEBASTOPOL.
Leeketk How, Ambleeide, 14th January 1858. Sta—You have generously allowed letters in favour of the Medical Officers serving in the East to appear in your pages. An incident which has just come to my knowledge, I hope you will agree with me, ought to be made public, for, justly considered, it is of the true heroical kind. It is this it occurred op the occasion of " the great explosion" in Sebastopol. "All the surgeons (those of the nearest, the Light Division) remained at their posts where their duties called them, although so much danger and risk was sup- posed to exist that all the other officers and men of the regiments were re- moved three-quarters of a mile off." I use the words of my correspondent ; and I regret to have to add the following, his also—" In any other service where honour is less exclusively absorbed by one class, the conduct of the Medical Officers on this occasion would have been noticed officially."
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