Show avi avies ATTITUDES Es OP OF THE SL SLAIN U NT ayr 7 prominent officer attached to the ambulance chips of tile the fience aimy in italy lr dr Aini ai maud and has published the result of soine borne curious and interesting observations made by himself and upon the battlefields battle fields of the late napoleonic war with austi ia the position which the bodies or of the slain assume under the direct act of mortal wounds produced by dill chent missiles of death and the effect of such wounds in vat imis pal ts odthe body upon the expression of the features as well as upon the attitude tile the subjects of the somewhat novel investigation which might have been pursued on 1 a I grand scale sacile in iii this coli for the th e yeats in III a number of cases tile the dead soldier bierwas was found almost in tile the speaking snaking attitude of ble A hungarian Hunga iian liu hussar killed at the same moment with his hoise wad was s only slightly moved in ill nib hib saddle and sat bat dead holdin holding 0 tile hie point of ins his sable sabie in advance in in tile the p position of cl fail int A parallel case occupied on oil the death ok of art an Aub austrian trian al til lai ainan those wounded in the head ad it was remarked ked genei generally ally fell with the face ind and abdomen flat to tile the ground wounds in ill the clie bliest st and heart produced a like posture of the body though in the latter cases modifications of the position and expression iloie frequently took place than in the former A zouave struck full in ill the chest vh doubled upon ins his musket as it if taking a position to bayonet his face full of energy with an attitude more inore menacing than that of a lion 11 in wounds or of tile abdomen tile agony to have been pl prolonged pio olo longed liged 0 the face was contracted the liand hands s crosse crossed d and closed upon the stomach the body doubled upon itself and lying alyin partially upon the side but the alie report of dr armand after all contains no cases so remarkable kable astro r which eltive been observed upon one or two battlefields battle fields that eliat of shi loli oh on oil tile alic blood bloody y field when the biln carnage was over a soldier was found standing his is legs somewhat apart and his hig arms thrown tin own convulsively outward his posture that ot of a livin living 0 man mad agitated perhaps by a strong emotion he was nevert nevertheless lic stone dead a ghastly monument of seeming life afi alongside tile the hecatomb of fl fallen allen corpses another body lay partially prostrated on one sidy side th elight hand holding to the mouth a piece of cheese which tile the set teeth I 1 beio almost in tile act of gra grasping Spill b lying upon the back with tit the aims all alls extended and the knees di awn up toward tile the filec face was a posture frequently to be on this as we well al is as other fields other obidor observations actions would be of inte interest iest if described but the living attitude of the dead soldier still sidi standing 0 upon his feet and tile gi gaim im of ill life 0 in the apparent coffier oner of food to a corpse are sul sui surpassed passed by illy any fed incident or of war thu facts ai aio e del derived ived f aiom an all officer who witnessed the unusual spectacle we abc not aware bof of any ally v valuable al u abl L result which lias has followed the observations of tile ambulance colas in this direction sufficient to induce our army eolis to devote VL valuable time to to tile the same sallie study but doubtless many ally pa pages es of curious if not instructive mato matter ter might be made up tip in this ghastly field of inquiry |