: Physician and patient by Hooker Worthington Burder Thomas Harrison Contributor - Physicians; Physician and patient; Medical ethics; Quacks and quackery

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THE WAY TO THE BOER COUNTRY

The Blockade at Delagoa Bay--Lorenzo Marques in war-time--Portuguese tax-raising methods--The way to the Transvaal--Koomatipoort, the Boer threshold--The low-veld or fever country--Old-time battlefields--The Boer capital and its scenes--The city of peace and its inhabitants.

FROM FARM TO BATTLEFIELD

The old-time lions and lion-hunters and the modern types--Lion-hunting expeditions of the Boers--The conference between the hunters and the lions--The great lion-hunt of 1899-1900--Departure to the hunting-grounds.

COMPOSITION OF THE ARMY

Burghers, not soldiers--Home-sickness in the laagers--Boys in commandos--The Penkop Regiment--Great-grandfathers in battles--The Takhaar burghers--Boers' unfitness for soldiering--Their uniforms--Comfort in the laagers--Prayers and religious fervour in the army.

THE ARMY ORGANISATION

The election of officers--Influences which assert themselves--Civil officials the leaders in war--The Krijgsraad and its verdicts--Lack of discipline among the burghers--Generals calling for volunteers to go into battle--Boers' scouting and intelligence departments.

THE BOER MILITARY SYSTEM

The disparity between the forces--A national and natural system of fighting--Every burgher a general--The Boers' mobility--The retreat of the three generals from Cape Colony--Difference in Boer and British equipment--Boer courage exemplified.

THE BOERS IN BATTLE

Fighting against forces numerically superior--The battle at Sannaspost--The trek towards the enemy--The scenes along the route--The night trek--Finding the enemy, and the disposition of the forces in the spruit and on the hills--The dawn of day and the preparation for battle--The Commandant-General fires the first shot--The battle in detail--Friend and foe sing "Soldiers of the Queen."

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