Diet, and Healing of Wounds.
The New York Medical Times tells us, in speaking of the Turko-Grecian War, that “the doctors remark upon the rapidity with which patients recover from wounds, and attribute it to the abstemious lives led by the Turkish soldiers, who drink no wine, eat but very little meat, and take plenty of vegetables. They are examples of the saying, ‘Prevention is better than cure.’ By their manner of living they escape the effects from which grosser livers suffer when wounded.” It is said that their vitality was wonderful. “One man who had his stomach penetrated by a bullet, not only kept his place in the ranks till the battle was over, but marched a distance of ten miles afterward. Another, with three wounds, two in the legs, and one in the shoulder, continued in the performance of his regular duties for twenty-four hours after their reception, and would probably have kept about until they healed, had not an officer, happening to notice his condition, told him to go to the hospital; and it was with great reluctance that the wounded soldier went.”