Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878- · New York, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 704
ory. The Red Cross as a concrete agency, to preserve life and tohelp suffering in times of disaster from fire, earthquake, andvarious physical ills, as well as to bring aid to wounded soldierson bloody battlefields, however, owes its origin to Henri Dunant,a philanthropic gentleman of Switzerland,… … MISS MABEL BOARD MAN APPENDIX From this personal vision of horror and bloodshed he couldsee how inadequate were the medical forces of the two armies tocare for even a part of their own injured, and upon his return toGeneva he proposed to the Public Utility Society, a philanthropicorganization of…
