SIR IAN HAMILTON.

Shannon News, 13 January 1922, Page 2

SIR IAN HAMILTON.

> ADVICE TO HOSPITAL STAFFS. [ London, December IG. Sir lan Hamilton’s instincts, it would appear, as evinced luM night 1 at the Burns Club lecture i*> London, were not even repressed dining critical days in Gallipoli. Thinking it necessary then to check the "enervating influences” exercised by hospital ship nurses on sick and wounded officers, lie issued a memorandum inculcating the importance of medical officers and nurses maintaining a hearty tone of optimism calculated to raise rather (ban to lower the confidence and courage of the fighting men. This circular must be a War Office curiosity, for it proceeded as follows: “ ‘Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d ’ Thus Macbeth inquires of the physician who, too diffident, replies, ‘Therein the patient must minister to himself.’ Bui our hospitals at Mudros have proved to us that those who minister to the body diseased arc best qualified at the same time to ‘raze out the troubles of the brain.’ L,et medical officers and nurses on hospital ships and ambulance carriers sea io it that, under all trials, they surround then emit and mounded with an atmosphere of enthusiasm and of invincible hope.”