Note 2 — A TABLE OF THE SECTIONS.
S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot translation
It was rumoured at Paris during the war, that the King of Prussia forbid the mutilation of his soldiers from other motives than those of humanity. Idle people spent their time in declaiming against such barbarity, and thus ignorantly prejudiced the minds of people against Mr. Bilguer's method. I have heard able surgeons hint this objection, when I spoke to them concerning the present work. They acknowledged, nevertheless, that amputations had been too common in the French armies. I hope the publication of this little book will have two effects; the first is, to re-establish the truth, and the second is, to awaken in those surgeons, the feelings of humanity.