The Provost-Marshal-General's Office managed recruiting for the Union forces during the last two years of the Civil War (1863-1865), standardizing the medical exams and making other improvements to ensure better fitness in new troops. This process generated over a million detailed medical records, which after the war were compiled and analyzed to provide a valuable statistical profile of the physical and medical condition of American men. The published report included this discussion of the disease nomenclature used in the analysis. Pages 3-12 of J. H. Baxter, Comp., Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau, derived from records of the examination for military service in the armies of the United States during the late war of the rebellion. Vol 1.
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