Surgeons in charge of hospitals will reportconvalescents as fast as they become fit for duty.
These were mostly convalescents and disheartened stragglers belonging to General Beauregard's army, and from them we learned that Corinth was being evacuated.
Soon the judge's son was with a score of convalescents who were marched down to the town, where they formed in column with other detachments.
There might be news coming down the traffic-gorged castle road out of the region where the guns sounded that convalescents were not intended to hear.
In this conquered territory with its face of desolation there were no fighting men except reserves or convalescents on their way to the front.
As the little group of convalescents descended into a valley a bursting shell from the Browns scattered its fragments over the earth near by.
That night he and his comrade convalescents slept in the open.
After a hurried five minutes for brushing and washing, we took our places at a long table set in the cool stone hall, guests stopping in the château occupying one end around the chatelaine, the convalescents filling the other seats.
A late dinner brought us together again in a small dining room, the convalescents having eaten their simple meal and disappeared an hour before.
The above are highly nutritious, and are recommended as articles of diet for convalescents and debilitated persons.
Convalescents who were able to walk flapped along in carpet slippers.
The wheel-chairs and convalescents quavered the familiar words.
In the courtyard of the hospital, convalescents sat on the benches and watched for robins.
You know how much so-called convalescents need care in recovering from fever, but these seven have had the fever very slightly indeed, thank God; the type of the disease is much less severe than it was at first.
Our first case was on the llth of March, and our last convalescents did not go out until near the end of June.
All grimy with the heat, dust and wounds of battle, they were placed upon stretchers, and by the convalescents and nurses were carried to the dainty beds.
The convalescents of Sherman's army and his recruits were collected in a provisional division under General Thomas Francis Meagher, took steamboats at Nashville, and made part of the same general transfer to the East.
General Stiles, one of my most trusted subordinates, had been made commandant of the post of Raleigh with a garrison of three battalions of infantry, a brigade of reserve artillery, and the convalescents of the Army of the Ohio.
A liberal issue of furloughs to enlisted men, especially convalescents in hospital, was made, so that we might get them back in robust health and good spirits when the fall campaign should open.
Hence, those seriously ill, those who fear the saying of the Office may upset them in their weak state, and convalescents from a serious illness, are excused from saying the Hours.
St. Alphonsus teaches that invalids and convalescents may be allowed to say Mass and yet not be bound to say the Office, as the saying of Mass does not fatigue them so much as the saying of the Office (St. Alphonsus, n.
Sometimes we gave our performance in the hospital wards, and sometimes to the convalescents in the grounds, and everywhere our efforts to amuse met with the heartiest applause.
I forgot to say that while we were at Port Said we gave a special matinée to the convalescents in the Theatre Khedival.
The fever was dying out and pale convalescents were sometimes seen in the village or strolling about the park.
They walked and rode together about the countryside; when Mount Dunstan itself was swept clean of danger, and only a few convalescents lingered to be taken care of in the huge ballroom, they spent many days in going over the estate.
Wise's brigade, with the militia, the department companies, and the convalescents from the hospitals, must number some 8000 men in this vicinity.
He told me he had six thousandconvalescents under his charge at Nashville.
On July 22, a few days after my arrival, the convalescents were taking their midday meal in this room when the clatter of a horse's feet was heard.
He had been on post but a little while when a Federal cavalryman approached with a squad of convalescents captured at the hospital.
The convalescents who were fit for service joined the ranks.
Such people when told that ham, boiled so thoroughly that it crumbles in the fingers, is a favorite mode of giving meat to convalescents in European hospitals and that it agrees very well with them, will often be tempted to try it.
Familiar examples are often seen in the tuberculous who have lost weight rapidly or in convalescents from typhoid fever who are much thinner than they were before they took to their beds.
The infection was at first as active and the mortality as great on shore as on board; but the virulence of the fever was at length subdued by dispersing the sick and convalescents as much as possible[192].
It occurs in the apparently healthy only after severe exposure to wet and cold, and in convalescents from acute febrile diseases usually after some moderate exposure to a draught of air or change of temperature.
It has been observed that purpura often appears upon the lower limbs of convalescentsfrom other diseases when they first essay the upright position.
One of my convalescents made it for me," she said proudly.
About 100 men come through each day--the convalescents in the morning, so that the whole forenoon is taken up with dressings.
Before me sit a group of convalescents in the courtyard, basking in what there is of mellow sunlight--awaiting their turn for baths.
I arrive at eight to see that the men are getting on with their work, cut up dressings, leave out and mark towels until ten o'clock, when the convalescents begin to arrive.
Our patients were all wonderfully cheerful and happy, and the convalescentsenjoyed their meals in a tent which had been given by the men working on a ranch in British Columbia.
It was made for us at the arsenal, and gave ourconvalescents much joy and recreation.
Now I know the Colonel and Mr. Mitchell have some notion floating in their minds about getting a house for convalescents down here, and it strikes me that this might supply the work in cooking, washing, and so on.
The male convalescents were under the discipline of Sergeant O'Brien and the whole was to be superintended by Colonel and Mrs. Keith.
It is easy to understand what a charming place for convalescents and what a pleasant view for patients could be made out of such surroundings.
In 1548, together with his confessor, he founded the confraternity of the Most Holy Trinity for the care of pilgrims and convalescents in Rome.
The convalescents received a piece of boiled beef.
The convalescents there had a right to walk freely through the corridors to take exercise, and to breathe air less pestilential than that of our infirmary, which was close and saturated with deleterious emanations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convalescents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
