Excerpt from The Errand of Mercy: A History of Ambulance Work Upon the Battlefield The history of the treatment meted out to those Wounded in War is the history of the World. It tells the story of the growth of Man, from the day of the savage who strikes down his rival in love or the chase, to that of the modern conscript, torn from the desk to fall to the bullet of a far-off, invisible foe. Looking back across the battle-fields of the ages, we see the wounded groaning forth tortured lives, lifting imploring hands, the while those who love them agonize in vain to help them, because the link between is missing. The forging of the Link has been very slow; even yet it is so slender that it will snap under unexpected strain, now after twenty-five centuries in which we can trace its gradual welding. But the Link is now there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.