Excerpt from The Sick and Wounded in South Africa: What I Saw and Said of Them and of the Army Medical System

The object of this book, which is published before the issue of the Report of the Hospitals Commission is to place on record in a complete form the case I have brought forward against the medical arrangements in the South African War, which led to the appointment of the Commission. It therefore contains everything I have said or written on the subject in public.

That there is need for such a record has been amply demonstrated for months past by the many misrepresentations which have grown up around my action, and by the constant demands for information and for copies of the statements I have made. The best answer in both cases will be a full and accurate recital placed in the hands of the public. Those who accuse me of attacking the General in the field, of maligning the Army doctor, and of insulting the British soldier, or of sentimentalism, precipitancy, and unreasonableness, are welcome to search these pages for their proofs. On the other hand, probably not one in every thousand persons who have discussed the subject-matter of "Article IX., " and the continuation of its story in the House, has ever read either in its entirety.

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