Excerpt from Observations of a Contract SurgeonMy wife soon engaged pleasant rooms in Battle Creek, and although work in the camp was strenuous, my colleagues were pleasant fellows, and the homecoming every afternoon was the reverse of disagreeable. The only drawback to the life of the camp was the thought which would come into my mind every day that I was examining men to ascertain whether they were fit to be shot by German snipers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.