Hints to young medical officers of the army on the examination of recruits, and respecting the feigned disabilities of soldiers : with official documents, and the regulations for the inspection of conscripts for the French and Prussian armies / by Henry Marshall.

Date:
1828
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Credit: Hints to young medical officers of the army on the examination of recruits, and respecting the feigned disabilities of soldiers : with official documents, and the regulations for the inspection of conscripts for the French and Prussian armies / by Henry Marshall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    No. II. RETURN OF RECRUITS inspected at the Recruiting Dep8t, Dublin, from the 25th of December 1825 to the 24th of De- cember 1826. Approved 3,243 Rejsctsd 775 Total Inspected 4,018 CAUSES OF REJECTION. Unsound health, worn out, sottish intemperance 71 Weak intellect 3 Traces of scrofula ^2 Muscular tenuity 27 Chronic cuticular aflFections 7 Traces of tinea capitis 4 Ophthalmia tarsi 10 Obscurity of the cornea 8 Specks ou the cornea 39 Closed pupil ^ Amaurosis., • ^ Cataract 2 Puriform discharge from the ears ^ Defect of the sense of hearing 2 Loss of many teeth ^2 Impediment of speech * Excessively large tonsils 1 Narrow chest, sternum in some cases protruded 6 Thinness, and defective amplitude of the chest 2 Defective condition of the superior extremities, on account of old fractures, contractions, mutilations, extenuation, &c 45 Projecting scapulae • ^ Deformed spine ^ Deformed pelvis ^ Hernia, Inguinal, both sides right , left ' Ventral