Comments on: Life of a Navy surgeon: Rum, worms and tobacco cures http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/10/life-navy-surgeon-rum-worms-tobacco-cures/ The official Derren Brown Blog Mon, 07 May 2012 09:24:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: mrtotes http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/10/life-navy-surgeon-rum-worms-tobacco-cures/#comment-67038 mrtotes Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:22:25 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=14276#comment-67038 Arriving in a foreign land for the first time by sea is absolutely the best way and lifts everyone's spirits.  It's not the instant gratification we're so used to in the Internet age but seeing the land on the horizon for the first time and then stepping ashore hours later is just magical - especially after weeks at sea.  It's like life intensidied; everything looks so colourful and everybody is so interesting. For the weeks beforehand your existent has been contained to the few people you are with and the limited bounds of your vessel. Naval surgeons used to have to function alone with precious little real resource so it's no surprise they came up with these kind of solutions. Today many of them cut their teeth in the bloody wards of Camp Bastion hospital - so in the case of your experiencing real trauma - they are great to have around. Arriving in a foreign land for the first time by sea is absolutely the best way and lifts everyone’s spirits.  It’s not the instant gratification we’re so used to in the Internet age but seeing the land on the horizon for the first time and then stepping ashore hours later is just magical – especially after weeks at sea.  It’s like life intensidied; everything looks so colourful and everybody is so interesting. For the weeks beforehand your existent has been contained to the few people you are with and the limited bounds of your vessel.

Naval surgeons used to have to function alone with precious little real resource so it’s no surprise they came up with these kind of solutions. Today many of them cut their teeth in the bloody wards of Camp Bastion hospital – so in the case of your experiencing real trauma – they are great to have around.

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