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3—1077 MANUAL 
FOR THE 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
COMPILED UNDER THE DIRECTION OE TIIE 
SURG-EON GENERAL. 
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, 
FOR 
USE IN THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 
WASHINGTON: 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 
1899. WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Document No. 17. 
Office of tue Surgeon General. War Department, January i3, 1899. 
This Manual for the Medical Department is published for the information and 
guidance of all concerned ; it will not be modified except by specific authority 
given in each case. 
RUSSELL A. ALGER, 
Secretary of War. 
(3) TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Paragraphs. 
Appointment of Medical Officers 1-5 
Army Medical School G-10 
Assignment of Medical Officers 11-14 
Examinations for Promotion 15 
Chief Surgeons of Military Departments 10,17 
Duties of Medical Officers in the Field 18 
Hospital Corps ' 10-29 
Hospital Corps in Time of War .10-53 
Instruction in First Aid „ 34,35 
Hospital Matrons 30 
Ambulance Service 37,38 
Hospital Buildings 39-41 
Army and Navy General Hospital 42-51 
Service of Hospitals 52-54 
Hospital Fund 55-58 
Medical Attendance 59-61 
Medical Supplies 02-80 
Unserviceable Property 81-83 
Use of Medical Property.. 84-114 
Army Medical Museum 115 
Reports and Itcturns 110-121 
Record Books 122 
Supply Depots 123,124 
Information Slips 125 
Register of Patients 120-140 
Field Register : 147-154 
Report of Sick and Wounded 155-158 
Nomenclature of Diseases 159-161 
Operations for hernia 161 
Certificates of Disability 102 
Examination of Recruits 163-197 
Artificial Limbs 198 
Blank Forms „ 199 
Geneva Convention ' 200 
Supply Table - 201-208 
Furniture and Appliances for Operating Room 209 
Composition of Tablets 210 
Bottles and Jars Contained in Dispensing Set 211 
Contents of Cases, Library, Chests, etc 212-204 
Field Supply Table 265-290 
General Orders, Headquarters of the Army, A. G. O 291-316 
Circulars, War Department, A. G. 0 317-319 
Circulars, Headqnarters of the Army, A. G. 0 320-325 
Circulars, War Department, S. G. 0 326-335 
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APPOINTMENT OF MEDICAL OFFICERS. 
(See A. R. 1394, 1395.) 
1. Appointments of assistant surgeons are made by the 
President, after the applicant has passed a successful exam 
ination before a Medical Examining Board and has been 
recommended by the Surgeon General. Permission to appear 
before the board is obtained by letter to the Secretary of War, 
which must be in the handwriting of the applicant, giving the 
date and place of his birth and the place and State of which 
he is a permanent resident, and inclosing certificates based on 
personal acquaintance from at least two reputable persons as 
to his citizenship, character, and habits. The candidate must 
be a citizen of the United States, between twenty-two and 
twenty-nine years of age, of sound health and good character, 
and a graduate of some regular medical college, in evidence 
of which his diploma will be submitted to the board. The 
scope of the examination will include the morals, habits, 
physical and mental qualifications of the candidate, and his 
general aptitude for service; and the board will report un- 
favorably should it have a reasonable doubt in any of these 
particulars. 
2. The physical examination must be thorough, and each 
candidate will be required to certify that lie labors under no 
mental or physical infirmity or disability which can interfere 
with the efficient discharge of any duty which may be required. 
Errors of refraction, when not excessive, when unaccom- 
panied by ocular disease, and when they can be corrected by 
appropriate glasses, are not causes for rejection. 
3. The mental examinations are conducted by both written 
and oral questions, upon— 
(a) The elementary branches of a common-school educa- 
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United States, physics, general literature, and ancient and 
modern history. Candidates claiming special knowledge of 
the higher mathematics, ancient or modern languages, draw- 
ing, analytical chemistry or branches of natural science, will 
be examined in these subjects as accomplishments, and will 
receive due credit therefor according to their proficiency. 
(6) Professional branches, including anatomy, physiology, 
chemistry, hygiene, pathology and bacteriology, therapeutics 
and materia medica, surgery, practice of medicine, obstetrics, 
and the diseases of women and children. 
Examinations in medicine and surgery will also be con- 
ducted at the bedside and on the cadaver. 
Hospital training and practical experience in medicine, sur- 
gery, and obstetrics are essential. Candidates must present 
evidence that they have had at least one year’s hospital ex- 
perience, or the equivalent of this in practice. 
4. To save unnecessary expense to candidates, those who so 
desire may have a preliminary physical examination and an 
examination in the elementary branches of a common-school 
education by a medical officer stationed most conveniently for 
this purpose, who will act under instructions from the Medical 
Examining Board. 
5. The merits of the candidates in each of the several 
branches, and also their relative merit as evinced by the results 
obtained from the entire examination, will be reported by the 
board, and in accordance with this report approved candidates 
will be appointed to existing vacancies, or to such as may 
occur within two years thereafter. A candidate failing in one 
examination may be allowed a second after one year, but not 
a third. 
ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL. 
6. The Army Medical School at Washington, D. C., is gov- 
erned by special regulations, and has the following organi- 
zation : 
(1) The faculty consists of four or more professors selected 
from the senior officers of the Medical Department stationed 
in or near the city of Washington, and such associate profes- 
sors as may be required. The senior officer is president, and 
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(2) The student officers are those medical officers who have 
been appointed since the last preceding term of the school, 
and such others as may be authorized to attend. (A. R. 468.) 
7. The course of instruction covers a period of five months, 
and is given annually at the Army Medical Museum, in Wash- 
ington, D. C., commencing on the first Monday of November. 
It includes lectures on and practical instruction in— 
(а) The duties of medical officers in war and peace. 
(б) Military surgery, the care of the wounded in time of 
war, and hospital administration. 
(c) Military hygiene. 
(d) Military medicine. 
(e) Microscopy, sanitary and clinical; pathological histol- 
ogy, bacteriology, and urinology. 
(/) Hospital corps drill, and first aid to wounded. 
8. By permission of the Surgeon General, medical officers 
of the Army who desire to avail themselves of the course of 
instruction, and who are stationed in or near the city of Wash- 
ington, or who have a leave of absence which enables them 
to attend the course, may be admitted as pupils. 
9. At the termination of the course of instruction the stu- 
dent officers will be examined by the several professors, and 
their relative proficiency in each branch will be reported by 
the president of the faculty to the Secretary of War, through 
the Surgeon General. 
10. (a) The president of the faculty will he responsible for 
the discipline of the school. 
(l)) The junior professor will act as secretary, and will be 
responsible for all property pertaining to the school. 
(c) A faculty meeting will be held in the office of the secre- 
tary on the first Monday of each month from October to April, 
inclusive, and whenever called by the president of the faculty 
or the Surgeon General. 
(d) Resolutions adopted by the faculty relating to the course 
of instruction, the purchase of books and instruments, etc., 
will be submitted to the Surgeon General for his approval. 
(e) The president of the faculty will submit to the Surgeon 
General on or before the first day of May of each year, a 
detailed report of the condition of the Army Medical School, 
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including an account of the instruction given and the profi- 
ciency of the several student officers, as shown by an examina- 
tion made by each professor at the termination of his course. 
(/) The hours of instruction will be from 9 to 12 a. m., and 
from 1 to 4 p. m., daily, during the months of November, 
December, January, February, and March, inclusive, with the 
exception of Saturdays, Sundays, legal holidays, and the week 
commencing December 25. 
(g) Student officers will be required to be present during 
the hours designated, unless specially excused by the presi 
dent of the faculty or by orders from the War Department 
(li) When necessarily absent on account of sickness or other 
emergency, student officers will, as soon as practicable, send 
a written statement to the secretary of the faculty, explaining 
the reason for such absence. 
(i) The laboratories and library of the Army Medical School 
will be open for the use of student officers during the hours 
of instruction designated. 
(j) Student officers will be held strictly accountable for all 
instruments and apparatus issued to them for their personal 
use during the course of instruction, and for any loss or injury 
to books or apparatus belonging to the Army Medical School, 
when such loss or injury is due to carelessness or neglect. 
(k) Student officers in the Army Medical School, during the 
hours of instruction, will wear the undress uniform of their 
grade, except when engaged in laboratory work, when a black 
cambric laboratory gown may be worn. 
ASSIGNMENT OF MEDICAL OFFICERS. 
(See A. R. 738.) 
11. The number of medical officers assigned to duty at a 
post will, when practicable, be as follows: For a post having 
as its garrison a full regiment, three; for a post having as its 
garrison four companies and regimental headquarters, two; 
for a post having as its garrison less than four companies, one. 
12. The tour of duty for medical officers below the rank of 
major, at the following stations, will hereafter he two years, 
which time will be considered as equivalent to a full tour of 
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several stations are located: Alcatraz Island, California; 
Fort Brown, Texas; Fort Canby, Washington; Columbus 
Barracks, Ohio; Fort Columbus, New York; Fort DuChesne, 
Utah; Camp Eagle Pass, Texas; Fort Hamilton, New York; 
Fort Mason, California; Fort McIntosh, Texas; Fort Myer, 
Virginia; Fort Porter, New York; Fort Ringgold, Texas; San 
Carlos, Arizona; Fort Thomas, Kentucky; Fort Trumbull, 
Connecticut; Fort Wadsworth, New York; Fort Warren, 
Massachusetts; Washington Barracks, D. C., Washington, 
D. C.; Fort Wayne, Michigan. This must not be considered 
an absolute rule, as the interests of the service may call for a 
change of station within the department or to another depart- 
ment before the regular tour of duty has expired; and circum- 
stances may sometimes make it advisable to extend the tour 
of duty of a medical officer beyond the time specified. 
13. The Surgeon General will recommend the assignment, 
as attending surgeons in the principal medical centers of the 
United States, of medical officers who have not yet passed 
their examinations for promotion to a majority, and, so far 
as may be practicable, in the order of their seniority. These 
details will be made for one year only, in order that as many 
medical officers as possible may be enabled to avail them- 
selves of the opportunities thus offered for making themselves 
familiar with the practice of the leading physicians and sur- 
geons in this country, and of attending medical lectures, 
meetings of medical societies, etc. At the end of this tour of 
duty medical officers are required to make a detailed report 
to the Surgeon General, showing how much of their time has 
been occupied by their official duties, and to what extent 
they have availed themselves of the advantages offered for 
professional advancement. 
14. Medical officers assigned to duty as attending surgeons 
will select an office hour between the hours of 10 a. in. and 4 
p. m., and will remain in their offices during this hour, unless 
called away by an urgent professional engagement. They 
will inform all officers on duty, and all retired officers living 
in the city, of their residence address, of their office hour, 
and of any changes made in the same; also, of any leave of 
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the physician who will attend to their duties while they are 
absent. They will be careful not to allow anything to inter- 
fere with the proper performance of their duties as attending 
surgeon and examiner of recruits. 
EXAMINATIONS FOR PROMOTION 
15. Examinations for promotion will be made under the 
following heads: (1) Physical condition; (2) character and 
professional efficiency. 
(1) When the board finds an officer physically incapacitated 
for service, it will conclude the examination by finding and 
reporting the cause which, in its judgment, has produced his 
disability, and whether such disability was contracted in the 
line of duty. For the purpose of this inquiry the proceedings 
of the board will conform to those of a retiring board. 
(2) When the board finds an officer physically capable, the 
examination will proceed under the second head. Any evi- 
dence submitted as to character will be carefully considered, 
and such action will be taken as, in the opinion of the board, 
the case may require; provided, that an adverse finding shall 
not be entered until the officer shall have been fully heard in 
his own behalf. The professional examination of officers not 
found physically disqualified will be proceeded with by writ- 
ten questions of a practical character, including the following 
topics: 
Examination of Lieutenants.—(1) First aid and trans- 
portation of wounded; (2) hospital and hospital corps admin- 
istration; (3) Army Regulations, so far as they relate to the 
Medical Department or to the medical officer as an officer 
of the Army; (4) general and military hygiene; (5) recent 
progress in medicine and surgery; (6) subjects in which the 
officer may have been conditioned at his examination for 
appointment. 
Examination of Captains.—(1) Army Regulations, so far 
as they relate to the Medical Department or to the medical 
officer as an officer of the Army; (2) general and military 
hygiene; (3) clinical medicine, and recent progress in etiology, 
pathology, and therapeutics; (4) surgery and gynecology, in- 
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The board will report its recommendation of an officer for 
promotion in the following form: “We find that has 
the physical, moral, and professional qualifications to per- 
form efficiently all the duties of the grade to which he will 
next be eligible, and recommend him for promotion thereto. ” 
The questions and answers of the written examination will 
be transmitted with the proceedings of the board. Each record 
must be signed by every member and by the recorder, and 
must show the concurrence or nonconcurrence of each mem- 
ber in the opinion of the board. When the board fails to 
recommend a candidate for promotion, the record should 
state the cause of such failure. The proceedings will be for- 
warded to the Surgeon General for the final action of the 
Secretary of War. 
CHIEF SURGEONS OF MILITARY DEPARTMENTS. 
(See A. R. 196, 1465.) 
16. Chief surgeons and other medical officers, when ordered 
to make an inspection of a post, will examine the members of 
the hospital corps as to their efficiency in the ambulance and 
litter bearers’ drill, and the methods of rendering first aid to 
the wounded. 
17. Chief surgeons will keep the following record books: 
Letters received, letters sent, indorsements, and orders. 
They will also keep and turn over to their successors com- 
plete files of circulars, requisitions, records of medical officers, 
returns of the hospital corps, and reports received. 
DUTIES OF MEDICAL OFFICERS IN THE FIELD. 
18. The chief surgeon of a corps is held responsible for the 
proper and effective management of the medical service of 
the command. 
He should keep a register of the medical officers and hos- 
pital corps, making assignments and issuing orders and in- 
structions with the approval of and “By order” of the Major 
General Commanding, if authorized to do so. He should make 
himself acquainted with the sanitary conditions affecting the 
troops, the efficiency of the field hospitals and of the ambu- 
lance companies, and should call for weekly reports of sick 14 
and wounded and of the personnel and means of transporta- 
tion of the hospital corps. All reports and papers not requir- 
ing special action should be checked off and receive the stamp 
of his office before transmittal. Such papers include per- 
sonal reports of medical officers, monthly reports of sick and 
wounded, of the hospital corps and of the hospital fund, and 
sanitary reports from chief surgeons of brigades and divisions; 
also the lists of wounded called for after an engagement. A 
copy of the action taken on all papers referred to him or for- 
warded by him should be made in an indorsement book. Such 
papers include those relating to resignations, leave of absence 
or discharge on account of disability, requisitions for medical 
and hospital and hospital corps supplies, and all recommenda- 
tions or complaints referring to the medical service or affect- 
ing the health and well-being of the troops. Copies of orders 
and letters should be made and placed on file, and all circulars 
or orders from the Surgeon General or the Chief Surgeon of 
the Army should be published without delay to the chief 
surgeons of divisions. 
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Prior to a movement, the chief surgeon should verify, by 
personal inspection, the condition of the hospitals and of the 
hospital corps companies and their trains, and should make 
all the arrangements needful for the probable exigiencies of 
the campaign. He should see that the assignments by chief 
surgeons of divisions to positions on the operating staff of the 
field hospitals include the best surgical skill of each division. 
On the march he should accompany the staff and acquaint 
himself with the topography of the country; and when an 
engagement is imminent he should indicate to chief surgeons 
of divisions the localities best suited for the establishment of 
the field hospitals. He should inspect these from time to 
time, and exercise general supervision over the first-aid and 
ambulance stations and the movement of the wounded to the 
hospitals. He should also supervise the movement of sick 
and wounded to the base or general hospitals, providing 
transportation and detailing medical officers and attendants 
for their care. When absent on such duties he should leave 
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conditions. The Commanding General should be kept 
informed of the work of the Medical Department, and should 
always be consulted in matters of importance. 
(a) The chief surgeon of a division supervises the medical 
and hospital corps service of the division. He should trans- 
mit official reports and papers, with the stamp of his office if 
routine in character, or with his views indorsed thereon if the 
subject appears to call for this action. He should have fre- 
quent personal communication with the chief surgeon of the 
corps, and should endeavor to carry out the views of the latter 
on behalf of the troops. His usual position is with the staff, 
but he should make frequent visits to the division hospital 
and the ambulance company to oversee their work. He should 
detail one medical officer in rotation as officer of the day, who, 
on the march, should keep him informed of any noteworthy 
occurrence, and who, in camp, should visit each regiment of 
the division to report on its hygienic and sanitary conditions. 
Before an engagement he should see that the field hospital is 
properly established and that the operating surgeons and their 
assistants are at their proper stations. During and after the 
engagement he should supervise the movement of the wounded 
from the ambulance stations to the hospital. 
(6) The chief surgeon of a brigade is the adviser of the 
brigade commander in all medical and sanitary questions con- 
cerning the command. He should call for a weekly (or daily, 
as may be required) report of sick and wounded from regi- 
mental surgeons and of the detailed members of the hospital 
corps on duty with them. He should forward the formal 
reports of these surgeons, and promulgate orders from brigade 
and higher authorities. He should keep careful watch over 
the health of the brigade, reporting in writing from time to 
time, as may be required, and consulting in emergencies with 
the chief surgeon of the division. During and after an en- 
gagement he should supervise the work at the first-aid sta- 
tions and the removal of the wounded to the ambulance 
stations, unless on account of his superior ability he has been 
assigned to duty at the operating tables, in which case a com- 
petent officer should be detailed to represent him temporarily 
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(c) The regimental surgeon is, in sanitary matters, the ad- 
viser of the regimental commander. On the march and in 
camp he should examine the sick with a view to their proper 
treatment and disposition. He is responsible for any unex- 
pendable medical and hospital property issued for the use of 
the regiment. His supplies of .medicines, etc., should be re- 
newed by requisition on the surgeon in charge of the hospital. 
Members of the hospital corps on duty with the division are 
detailed to duty with him. Daily, after sick call, he should 
send a morning report of sick and wounded and of the hos- 
pital corps to the regimental commander, with a duplicate to 
the chief surgeon of the brigade. He should keep, as a register 
of sick and wounded, a retained copy of the monthly report 
forwarded through the offices of chief surgeons to the Surgeon 
General; cases treated in the division field hospital should be 
borne on this report as completed. See paragraph 148. He 
should forward monthly, or when his official station has been 
changed, a personal report on a memorandum slip. After 
every engagement a list of wounded of the command should 
be forwarded. If the regimental surgeon is, by order of the 
chief surgeon, placed on temporary special duty, the senior 
medical officer with the command will perform the duties of 
the regimental surgeon. During an engagement he should 
serve at the first-aid stations. 
(d) The surgeon in charge of a division hospital is respon- 
sible for the care of the sick and wounded on the march and 
in (•amp, and for the comfort and general welfare of the 
wounded when brought to the hospital by the ambulance 
service. He should direct the unpacking of the wagons for 
the establishment of so much of the hospital as may be neces- 
sary, and the subsequent repacking when the march is to be 
resumed. He should superintend the admission, return to 
duty, or transfer to base hospitals, of his patients. As com- 
manding officer of the hospital corps detachment he should 
keep the accounts of the enlisted men on duty at the hospital. 
He should make timely requisition for medicines, medical and 
hospital stores, supplies and property, for the care, expendi- 
ture, and use of which he is held responsible. He should sup- 
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such articles as may be required and are available for the 
treatment of the sick. He should send a daily report of sick 
and wounded and of the hospital corps to the chief surgeon, 
and transmit to the Surgeon General similar reports for the 
month, with a statement of the hospital fund. After an en- 
gagement he should forward lists of wounded, and on sending 
patients to base hospitals he should furnish transfer lists to 
the senior surgeon accompanying them. Medical officers may 
be assigned to assist him in the management of the hospital. 
One of these should act as executive officer, aiding the surgeon 
in charge in the work of supervision, and having special 
charge of the records. Another should superintend the cook- 
ing and diet of the hospital, drawing rations from the Sub- 
sistence Department, issuing them for use and keeping the 
accounts of the hospital fund. He should also have special 
charge of the hospital stores and of such articles of property 
as are connected with the cooking and serving of food. Others 
should be assigned as attending surgeons to care for the sick 
on the march and in camp, and during an engagement to look 
after the management of the wards, and to make notes of 
operative procedures, deaths, and of the progress of cases, for 
subsequent report to the snrgeon in charge and entry on the 
records of the hospital. 
(e) The officer in command of the ambulance company 
is charged with the care of the pay, clothing, and subsistence 
of his men, and is held responsible for the care of ambulances 
and other wagons, tents, horses, mules, forage, etc. His sub- 
altern officers assist him in the discharge of these duties. 
During and after an engagement he is responsible for the 
safe and speedy transportation of the wounded on litters and 
in ambulance wagons from the field to the hospital by way of 
the first-aid and ambulance stations, which latter he should 
organize. 
HOSPITAL CORPS. 
(See A. R. 1396-1411.) 
19. Application for the positions of hospital steward and 
acting hospital steward must be accompanied by an affidavit 
that the applicant is not married, and should be forwarded 
through military channels. 
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20. The examination for the positions of acting hospital 
steward and hospital steward will embrace the following sub- 
jects: (1) Arithmetic; (2) materia medica; (3) pharmacy; (4) 
care of sick and ward management; (5) minor surgery and 
first aid; (6) elementary hygiene. Proficiency in penmanship 
and orthography will be estimated from the papers submitted. 
21. The replies certified to by the board (A. R. 1397) as hav- 
ing been made without recourse to books, memoranda, or other 
sources of assistance will be forwarded with the report of the 
board direct to the Surgeon General, in whose office the papers 
in the hospital steward examinations will be marked. In the 
examination for acting hospital steward the board will mark 
the papers before forwarding them and report as to the eligi- 
bility of the candidate. The examination for both grades 
will embrace the same subjects, but that for acting hospital 
steward will be less difficult. 
22. The board will investigate and report upon the follow- 
ing: (1) Physical condition; (2) character and habits, espe- 
cially as to the use of stimulants and narcotics; (3) discipline 
and control of men; (4) knowledge of regulations; (5) nursing; 
(6) dispensary work; (7) clerical work; (8) principles of cook- 
ing and mess management; (9) hospital corps drill; (10) minor 
surgery and first aid, including extraction of teeth. 
23. The duties of hospital stewards and acting hospital 
stewards are to look after and distribute hospital stores and 
supplies; to care for hospital property; to compound and 
administer medicines; to supervise the preparation and serv- 
ing of food; to maintain discipline in hospitals and watch over 
their general police; to prepare reports and returns; to super- 
vise the duties of the members of the hospital corps in hospital 
and in the field, and to perform such other duties as may, by 
proper authority, be required of them. 
24. A reexamination before first reenlistment as hospital 
steward may not be required if the surgeon of the post and 
chief surgeon state that the steward has performed his duties 
efficiently, but will be held before second reenlistment. No 
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25. Medical officers will not make enlistments or reenlist- 
ments for the hospital corps without obtaining special author- 
ity, in each case, from the Surgeon General. 
26. Slight physical defects in applicants, which, under 
existing orders, would disqualify for the line, but would not 
interfere with the full performance of the duties of a sanitary 
soldier in garrison or in the field, may be waived, provided 
authority therefor has been obtained from the Surgeon Gen- 
eral. Note should be made on the enlistment paper of any 
special knowledge professed by applicants, as of cooking, 
gardening, or of a trade or other useful occupation. Those 
applicants who have graduated in pharmacy, or who have 
been licensed by State boards of pharmacy, should submit 
proof thereof, by diploma or otherwise. Trained nurses, or 
those who have served as such in civil hospitals, should pre- 
sent certificates of their training or service. 
27. In stating “character of the soldier, in detail,” on the 
descriptive list of a member of the hospital corps transferred, 
in addition to his general character as usually given, his 
habits as to sobriety and his attention to duty will he noted, 
adding, in case of a hospital steward or acting hospital stew- 
ard his ability to command men, and in case of a private his 
special qualifications as nurse, cook, etc. In noting physical 
condition on descriptive list, any important defects will be 
mentioned. In each case of transfer from a company of 
instruction a special report of results of instruction will be 
made, on information slip, to the surgeon of the new station, 
to be forwarded through the chief surgeon to the Surgeon 
General. The following order will be used, estimating each 
item on the basis of a maximum of 10: (1) Discijiline; (2) 
nursing; (3) first aid; (4) drill; (5) cooking; (6) pharmacy; 
(7) clerical work; (8) field work; (9) care and management 
of animals. 
28. At posts entitled to an acting hospital steward, where 
no detail has been made, the allotment of privates may be 
temporarily increased by one private under instruction for 
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29. Members of the hospital corps will be instructed by a 
medical officer of the post for at least eight hours in each 
month. This instruction will consist of lectures and demon- 
strations in the methods of rendering first aid to the sick and 
wounded, and of drills in the ambulance service, and as litter 
bearers, in accordance with the Drill Regulations. 
HOSPITAL CORPS IN TIME OF WAR. 
30. The provisions of Army Regulations governing the 
hospital corps so far as they are inapplicable in time of war 
and with troops in the field are suspended during the exist- 
ence of such conditions. 
(a) Enlisted men of volunteer organizations may be trans- 
ferred to the hospital corps of the Regular Army by the 
commanding general of the Army corps in which the 
soldier is serving, upon the recommendation of the chief 
surgeon of the corps. 
(b) The commander of an Army corps, or of a division 
or brigade acting independently of a corps, is charged with 
the full control of the transfer from the line, the enlistment, 
reenlistment, and discharge of members of the hospital corps 
of his command, with the detail of acting hospital stewards 
and the appointment of hospital stewards. 
(c) Acting hospital stewards will be detailed from privates 
of the hospital corps who are recommended by their medical 
officers as possessing the necessary qualifications. Hospital 
stewards will be appointed from acting hospital stewards 
who are recommended by their medical officers and who have 
served not less than three months in the hospital corps and 
are approved by a board of not less than three medical officers. 
(d) Enlistment papers in duplicate, examination forms and 
outline-figure cards for members of the hospital corps will 
be forwarded to the Surgeon General’s office, and monthly 
reports will be made by the chief surgeon of the corps, or divi- 
sion if acting independently, showing the number of stew- 
ards, acting stewards, and privates on duty, the names of men 
transferred from the line, of those enlisted or reenlisted, dis- 
charged, died, detailed acting hospital steward, or appointed 
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(e) The quota of members of the hospital corps for a corps 
of 25,000 men is— 
Hospital 
stewards. 
Acting hos- 
pital stew- 
ards. 
Privates. 
1 
\ 
3 
1 
1 
9 
1 
2 
1 
i 
i 
For each division ambulance company, and for the reserve 
7 
3 
104 
For each division field hospital, and for the reserve corps field 
hospital _ 
G 
90 
(/) The three volunteer hospital stewards mustered in 
with each regiment are included in this strength. 
(g) The corps commander may make such distribution of 
the members of the hospital corps within his command as he 
considers for the best interests of the service. 
(h) When recruits of the hospital corps are sent to posts 
or stations, recruiting officers will forward in each case the 
descriptive and assignment card required by A. R. 850 for the 
line of the Army. 
31. The field equipment to he carried by privates of the 
hospital corps is as follows: Canteen, canteen strap, haver- 
sack, haversack strap, litter sling, waist belt, waist-belt plate, 
meat can, tin cup, knife, fork, spoon, hospital-corps pouch; 
when serving as orderly, a medical officer’s orderly pouch, 
instead of the hospital-corps pouch. The field equipment for 
noncommissioned officers is the same as for privates, with the 
exception of the litter sling and hospital-corps pouch. 
32. The articles heretofore carried in the knapsack or blanket 
hag, together with the overcoat, will he rolled in the piece of 
shelter tent supplied eacli soldier, and carried in the transpor- 
tation wagon; when the soldier is mounted, and no wheel 
transportation is available, they will be carried on the saddle, 
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33. When detailed for service in the field during Indian 
wars, or when left with the sick or wounded under circum- 
stances which justify the expectation that their rights as 
noncombatants, under the Geneva Convention, will not be 
recognized, commanding officers will issue to members of the 
hospital corps revolvers or other available firearms. With 
these exceptions, no side arms will be issued to members of 
the hospital corps. 
INSTRUCTION IN FIRST AID 
(See A. R. 1412, 1413.) 
34. Instruction in the duties of litter bearers and the meth- 
ods of rendering first aid to the sick and wounded will be 
given to all enlisted men of the Army by their company 
officers for at least four hours in each month. Company 
commanders will be supplied by the Surgeon General with 
the Drill Regulations for the Hospital Corps, and the surgeon 
of the post, under the direction of the post commander, will 
thoroughly instruct such captains as may volunteer therefor 
and all lieutenants serving with troops in the professional 
knowledge required. 
35. The instruction necessary to enable company officers to 
drill the enlisted men of their companies “in the duties of 
litter bearers and methods of rendering first aid to the sick 
and wounded ” will be given chiefly by practical demonstra- 
tions, made in their presence. The prescribed drills of the 
detachment of the hospital corps will be utilized for this pur- 
pose, especial attention being given to the instruction in first 
aid. The practical demonstrations, accompanied by full ex- 
planations, should include methods of arresting hemorrhage, 
of applying the dressings contained in the first-aid packet, of 
immobilizing a fractured limb, of resuscitating those appar- 
ently drowned, etc., and should be supplemented by lectures 
designed to convey all essential information with reference 
to the anatomy of bones and blood vessels; the causes and 
treatment of syncope and of heat exhaustion; the differential 
diagnosis and treatment of sunstroke; the rationale of the 
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(See A. R. 1437.) 
36. Washing for the Medical Department not done by a 
hospital matron is paid for on vouchers (Form No. 4) approved 
by the Surgeon General. 
AMBULANCE SERVICE 
37. The ambulance and hospital service of each independent 
command will be under the supervision of its chief surgeon. 
This officer should make all necessary arrangements for the 
care and transportation of %the wounded, who, during an en- 
gagement, will receive attention at the following principal 
points, and in the following order: (1) with the line of battle 
under fire; (2) at the,first dressing stations; (3) at the ambu 
lance station; (4) at the division, brigade, or field hospitals. 
He establishes the ambulance stations in the rear, and gives 
directions concerning the first dressing stations; details the 
proper number of privates of the hospital corps, acting hos- 
pital stewards, hospital stewards, and medical officers for duty 
with the advance line, and for the care and transportation of 
the wounded between that line, the first dressing stations, 
the ambulance stations, and the hospitals. (See also para 
graph 18 (e).) 
(See A. R. 1414-1419.) 
38, First dressing stations will he established at the place 
nearest to the combatants, where the woun ded and those caring 
for them will not he unnecessarily exposed to fire. Ambulance 
stations will be established at some place of security in the 
rear, or in some convenient building near the field of battle. 
The hospitals will be established by the chief surgeon, after 
consultation with the commanding general. Dressing stations 
will be distinguished during the day by red-cross flags, and 
at night by red lanterns. 
HOSPITAL BUILDINGS 
39. New floors in hospitals will not he painted. They may 
he finished in oil and paraffin, or oil, wax, turpentine, etc. , tc 
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which coloring matter may be added if deemed necessary. 
Floors of verandas and porches should be protected by paint. 
40. When an allotment of funds for the repair of a hospital 
or hospital steward's quarters has been made, the officer in 
charge will be notified of the action by letter from the Surgeon 
General, the receipt of which will be acknowledged by return 
mail. Estimates and other papers referring to a hospital must 
be prepared separately from those for a hospital steward’s 
quarters. On the last day of each month, unfT the work is 
completed and so reported, the surgeon in charge will advise 
the Surgeon General, by information slip, of the progress 
effected, or if none, the cause of the delay so far as he can 
ascertain it. 
41. In every post hospital a room should, if possible, be set 
aside as an operating room. Special attention should be given 
at all times to the cleanliness of this room, including its walls 
and floors, as well as the necessary furniture. A stout table, 
of suitable size and plain finish, that can be easily scrubbed, 
should always be in readiness. In this room should be placed 
all the instruments and dressings, antiseptics, anaesthetics and 
other appliances that may be needed in an emergency. While 
always accessible, they should be guarded from handling by 
irresponsible persons. The Arnold’s sterilizer and the boiler 
of the kitchen stove or range afford ready means for sterilizing 
instruments, dressings, basins, towels, etc., that may be needed 
at an operation. At large permanent posts, if no suitable 
room is available, plans and estimates should be forwarded for 
such changes in or addition to the hospital building as will 
provide a conveniently located operating room. Provision 
should also be made for a laboratory, in which the chemical 
and bacteriological sets furnished can be conveniently arranged 
and kept always ready for use. 
ARMY AND NAVY GENERAL HOSPITAL. 
42. The Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, 
Ark., is under the direction of the Secretary of War, and is 
devoted to the treatment of the officers and enlisted men of 
the military and naval service of the United States, the 
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officers of the revenue-cutter service and of the marine-hospital 
service, and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the 
Regular and Volunteer Army and Navy of the United States, 
for such diseases as the waters of the Hot Springs of Arkansas 
have an established reputation in benefiting, except that cases 
of venereal disease will not be admitted. 
(a) Admission to this hospital is restricted to those of the 
above-named classes who require medical treatment, in the 
following order of preference: (1) Officers and enlisted men 
of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps on the active 
lists, and cadets at the Military and Naval Academies; (2) 
officers and enlisted men of the Army, the Navy, and the 
Marine Corps on the retired lists; (3) officers of the revenue- 
cutter service and of the marine-hospital service; (4) hon- 
orably discharged soldiers and sailors of the Regular and 
Volunteer Army and Navy of the United Sta tes may also be 
admitted by authority of the Surgeon General when there are 
vacant beds in the hospital. 
43. The organization of the hospital shall consist of one 
medical officer of the Ai’iny, who will command it, and such 
other medical officers of the Army and Navy as may he neces- 
sary, to be detailed by the Secretary of War or the Secretary 
of the Navy, respectively; one officer of the Quartermaster’s 
Department, or of the line of the Army as an acting assistant 
quartermaster, who will also he an acting commissary of sub- 
sistence, if required, detailed by the Secretary of War; such 
noncommissioned officers and men of the hospital corps as may 
he authorized by the Secretary of War; and such civil em- 
ployees as may he necessary for the proper service of the 
hospital. 
(a) The civil employees not in the classified service will be 
appointed by the commanding officer, having in view their 
fitness for the service required. They will he governed by 
such rules as may he promulgated for the service of the hos- 
pital, and they may he discharged by the appointing officer for 
unfitness, or when their services become unnecessary. 
44. Officers tinder treatment, when subsisted in the hos- 
pital, will be subject to a charge for subsistence not to exceed 
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one dollar and fifty cents per day, to be paid on the last day 
of each month, or upon leaving the hospital. 
(a) Military or naval cadets will in like manner pay a sub- 
sistence charge at the rate of one dollar per day. Such cadets 
while patients may have the privilege of the officers' mess, at 
the discretion of the commanding officer. 
(l>) Should an officer or cadet from any cause (as in case of 
death) fail to pay an account for subsistence when due, the 
fact will be immediately reported by the commanding officer 
to the Surgeon General of the Army, who will certify the 
fact to the Paymaster General of the Army, to the Surgeon 
General of the Navy, or to the Secretary of the Treasury, as 
the case may be, and the proper officers of the War, Navy, or 
Treasury Departments will take such steps as will promptly 
secure to the hospital payment of the amounts due. 
(c) Enlisted men on the active list while under treatment 
or on duty in the hospital will have the usual allowance of 
rations commuted at the rate of not less than thirty cents per 
day, to be paid by the proper officers of the W ar or Navy Depart 
ment, upon the receipt of monthly statements of the amounts 
due, certified by the Surgeon General of the Army. 
(d) Enlisted men of the Army, the Navy, or the Marine 
Corps admitted to the hospital by proper authority while on 
furlough will pay for subsistence at the same rate that the 
rations of the other enlisted men are commuted. 
(e) Enlisted men of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine 
Corps on the retired list, and honorably discharged soldiers 
and sailors of the Regular and Volunteer Army and Navy of 
the United States will pay for subsistence thirty cents per day. 
45. Subsistence stores for use in the officers’ and enlisted 
men’s messes may be purchased by the commanding officer of 
the hospital from such officers of the Subsistence Department 
as the Commissary General of Subsistence may designate. 
46. The commanding officer will account monthly to the 
Surgeon General of the Army for all money received or ex- 
pended on account of officers and enlisted men. 
47. The Surgeon General of the Army will certify monthly 
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of subsistence furnished to enlisted men of the Navy or Marine 
Corps on the active list, and to the Commissary General of 
Subsistence of the Army all balances due on account of sub- 
sistence furnished to enlisted men of the Army on the active 
list, said men in each case being such as have been ordered to 
the hospital for duty or treatment. 
48. Authority for the admission of an officer of the Army 
on the active list will be granted on his personal application, 
through the regular military channels, to the Ad j utant General 
of the Army, for a sick leave of absence, based upon a med- 
ical officer’s certificate that sets forth the disability for which 
treatment at this hospital is recommended, and the opinion of 
the medical officer that such treatment will conduce to the 
more rapid recovery of the patient. Sick leave of absence to 
enter the hospital will then be granted. 
(a) The limit of a permit to enter the hospital is fixed at 
fourteen days. 
(b) An officer’s continuance in the hospital will be deter- 
mined by the commanding officer, who will from time to time 
report to the Adjutant General as to the officer’s physical con- 
dition, and will express his opinion as to the length of time 
required for treatment. If this is approved, the sick leave, 
if the officer has such, will be extended accordingly. Ordi- 
narily, officers on the active list will not remain longer than 
four months at the hospital, and a special report will be made 
in the case of an officer who shall be under treatment there 
six months. 
(c) Retired officers of the Army may make direct applica- 
tion, accompanied by a medical certificate, to the Adjutant 
General for permission to enter the hospital. Retired officers 
may leave the hospital at their discretion, but they will not 
remain in hospital longer than three months without special 
permission, based on the recommendation of the commanding 
officer. 
(d) The accommodations for enlisted men of the Army are 
allotted among the several military departments. The com- 
manding officer of the hospital will notify department com- 
manders from time to time of the number of vacant beds at 
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(e) For the admission of an enlisted man application will be 
made to the department commander by the man’s immediate 
commanding officer, on the recommendation of the surgeon, 
which will accompany the application. Should the chief sur- 
geon so advise, the department commander may order the 
soldier to report to the commanding officer of the hospital for 
admission for treatment. 
49. When in his opinion it is proper, the commanding officer 
of the hospital will issue the necessary orders for the soldier 
to rejoin his company or station. Should he be a fit subject 
for discharge for disability, or should a change of climate be 
thought necessary, the commanding officer of the hospital will 
notify the Adjutant General and make such recommendations 
as he may deem proper, when suitable orders will be issued in 
the case. 
50. In selecting cases for this hospital medical officers will 
exercise discretion, and will only recommend such as are seri- 
ous or obstinate and do not promise good results if treated at 
the post. It is not required to certify that treatment at Hot 
Springs is necessary to restore health, but to establish a rea- 
sonable probability that the facilities there will materially aid 
in the rapidity and permanence of the recovery. Besides the 
transfer slip, an outline of the history and treatment of the 
case must accompany each patient. 
51. The transfer of venereal cases to the Army and Navy 
General Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., is prohibited. In order 
that patients suffering from venereal diseases may not be 
permitted to enter this hospital, medical officers will exer- 
cise great care in their examination of each case before they 
forward requests for admission. 
SERVICE OF HOSPITALS 
52. When a patient is transferred from the care of one 
medical officer to another, a report of the case (Form No. 26) 
will accompany him. 
(See A. R. 1435-1149.) 
53. Hospital clothing will be worn by patients only during 
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property. When very sick soldiers are transferred from one 
hospital to another, the hospital clothing necessary for their 
comfort maybe sent with them, properly invoiced, and accom- 
panied by a check list, giving the names of the men in whose 
possession it is. Under the provisions of this paragraph, 
crutches and similar articles may, if necessary, be similarly 
transferred with the patient from one post or hospital to 
another. 
54. Clothing and other articles which can be immersed in 
boiling water, or a disinfecting solution, without material 
injury, should be disinfected and not destroyed by burning. 
Articles destroyed to prevent contagion must be accounted for 
by a certificate of the officer responsible, setting forth fully the 
circumstances necessitating such destruction. 
HOSPITAL FUND. 
(See A. II. 300,1259,1269,1270.) 
55. A statement of the hospital fund and return of durable 
property in the prescribed form (Form No. 35) will be for- 
warded by the surgeon at the end of each month and when 
relieved from duty, to the chief surgeon, who upon examina- 
tion and approval will forward it to the Surgeon General. 
56. Chief surgeons may grant authority for the purchase of 
articles required for the use of the sick in hospital and for the 
hospital corps, when satisfied that they are proper charges 
against the hospital fund. In case of doubt, the request for 
authority will be referred to the Surgeon General for his action. 
57. Officers of the Medical Department will be held to a 
personal accountability for the loss of any portion of the hos- 
pital fund not deposited and locked in the cash box of the 
hospital safe. Any change in the combination of the lock of 
the hospital safe will be immediately reported to the Surgeon 
General. 
58. Gratuities to hospital cooks may be authorized by chief 
surgeons when the amount of the hospital fund on hand justi 
fies such an expenditure, viz: 
(a) At posts where the number of patients treated in hospital 
averages less than five daily, ten cents per day; where the 
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where the number averages more than ten daily, a gratuity of 
ten cents per day may also be paid to a second cook. 
(b) A gratuity of not exceeding ten dollars may be paid from 
the hospital fund to the hospital gardener, when approved by 
the Surgeon General. 
(c) Chief surgeons will instruct the medical officers serving 
in their respective departments, when granted authority to 
pay gratuities, to quote on the statement of the hospital fund 
the date and source of such authority. 
MEDICAL ATTENDANCE. 
(See A. K. 1450-1459.) 
59. The family of an officer will be understood to include 
his wife, minor children, and other dependent members of his 
household, including servants. 
60. If citizens residing in the neighborhood of a military 
post desire the professional attendance of an Army medical 
officer, it is regarded as not inconsistent with the requirements 
of the regulations governing the Army for such officer to ren- 
der his services, when this does not interfere with the proper 
performance of his official duties. But the establishment of 
an office outside of the limits of a military post for the purpose 
of engaging in civil practice is prohibited. 
61. Civilians employed in post exchanges are held to be 
entitled to the privileges of medical and hospital attendance 
and purchase of medicines allowed civilian employees under 
A. R. 1444, 1445, 1447, and 1450. 
MEDICAL SUPPLIES 
62. Medical officers in charge of medical supply depots will 
purchase and distribute medical and hospital supplies. In 
cases of emergency, articles not on hand will be purchased in 
small quantities to fill duly approved requisitions, without 
waiting for the approval of the Surgeon General. 
(See A. R. 1460, 1401.) 
63. Medical officers detailed as disbursing officers will pay 
accounts against the Medical Department, when approved by 
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Surgeon General in time to prepare and forward requisitions 
for the same to the Secretary of War before the 25th day of 
each month. 
64. The Supply Table enumerates the medical supplies 
issued to the Army, and the quantities and sizes of original 
packages. The Medical Department will supply, from time 
to time, new remedies of determined therapeutic value; but 
newly introduced remedies, desired only for experiment, and 
such as offer no manifest advantage over those already issued, 
will not be supplied. These supplies are selected for the mili- 
tary service, and it is believed that all necessary articles are 
included, and that the quantities allowed will be found suffi- 
cient under ordinary circumstances. Requests for particular 
preparations simply because they are agreeable to the taste, or 
to save trouble in compounding, will not be approved; nor will 
preparations of a drug be furnished when one or more practi- 
cally equivalent ones are on the Supply Table. 
REQUISITIONS. 
65. The senior medical officer of every post will make annual 
requisition for medical supplies for the year commencing Jan- 
uary 1, unless another date is fixed by the Surgeon General. 
The requisition will be made in triplicate and forwarded to 
the chief surgeon; or, in the case of independent posts, in 
duplicate, to the Surgeon General. 
66. Chief surgeons will see that annual requisitions do not 
call for any article not on the Supply Table, nor for quanti- 
ties in excess of those therein allowed. They will forward 
one copy to the Surgeon General, one, with their approval, 
direct to the medical supply depot designated by the Surgeon 
General for issue, and will retain one. 
67. Annual requisitions will be forwarded to the chief sur- 
geon within twenty days before the date at which the period 
they cover begins. They will be made only for articles that 
are, or probably will be, needed during the year; will state 
the quantity of all articles on hand, as verified by a medical 
officer in accordance with paragraph 77, and will give the 
total number of persons entitled by regulations to medicines. 
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allowed by the Supply Table. The quantities asked for will 
be computed on the basis of original packages. 
(a) Chief surgeons at their inspections will carefully in- 
vestigate the method of preparing requisitions, particularly 
as to the necessity for the quantities asked for, and the accu- 
racy with which the quantities on hand are stated. 
(b) Requisitions for supplies for temporary posts or for 
those soon to be abandoned will be confined to such articles 
as are absolutely necessary. 
(c) Subposts and camps will, in the. absence of orders to 
the contrary, obtain such medical supplies as may be required 
by requisition upon the senior medical officer of the post to 
which they are subsidiary, who will issue them after approval 
by the chief surgeon. 
(d) The smaller posts will not require all the articles in- 
cluded in the Supply Table, and the local prevalence or rarity 
of certain diseases, as well as the quantity or number on hand 
of each article, will be considered in the preparation and 
approval of requisitions. 
68. When medical supplies are absolutely necessary before 
the annual requisition is made they will be asked for upon a 
special requisition, in triplicate, giving a list of the articles 
needed, and the quantity of each on hand, and the reasons for 
the necessity of such requisition. These will be transmitted 
through the chief surgeon, who will retain one copy and will 
forward two to the Surgeon General. 
(a) Chief surgeons will personally and carefully scrutinize 
these requisitions, and will make such changes as they may 
deem proper. 
69. In all returns, requisitions, invoices, and receipts per- 
taining to medical supplies, the nomenclature, order of entry, 
and classification of the Supply Table will be strictly followed, 
and all copies will he carefully compared. They will he for- 
warded without letters of transmittal. 
70. In cases of emergency, as sudden epidemics, not admit- 
ting of delay, chief surgeons are authorized to act upon special 
requisitions, forwarding one copy, with their action, to the 
nearest medical supply depot, one to the Surgeon General, 
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one; but requisitions for articles not on the Supply Table 
must, in all cases, be forwarded to the Surgeon General for 
his action. 
(a) When, as a result of the prevalence of an epidemic, or 
for any other reason, necessary supplies are likely to be ex- 
hausted, timely requisition must be made for additional sup- 
plies. Medical officers will be held accountable for any suf- 
fering which may result from their failure to ask for supplies 
when it is evident that they will be needed. 
71. Officers transferring medical supplies will prepare in- 
voices (Form No. 18) in duplicate, one for the Surgeon Gen- 
eral and one for the receiving officer. The receiving officer 
will prepare receipts (Form No. 19) in duplicate, one for the 
issuing officer and one for the Surgeon General. The vouchers 
for the Surgeon General will be promptly forwarded after the 
transfer is completed. A packer’s list (Form No. 17) will, if 
necessary, be furnished by the issuing officer. 
TRANSFER OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES. 
72. Great care should he exercised before receipting for 
cases of instruments, microscopes, and other property of sim- 
ilar character not enumerated on the property papers in detail, 
to ascertain that the full contents of such cases are present and 
in good order. Incomplete cases will be receipted for as such, 
and a list of the missing instruments, etc., will accompany 
the receipt in order that the proper officer may be held account- 
able for the deficiency. 
(a) Receipts, without remark, for cases of instruments and 
similar property will be considered as evidence that they are 
complete and in accordance with the lists of contents as given 
in the Supply Table, and the receiving officer will be held re- 
sponsible in accordance therewith. 
(b) The issuing officer will enter on his invoices, and the 
receiving officer on his receipts, the condition of all articles 
not serviceable. 
73. Medical officers will report to the Surgeon General and 
to the issuing officer all defects observed in the quality, quan- 
tity, or packing of medical supplies. They are requested to 
freely communicate to the Surgeon General any suggestions 
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tending to the improvement of medical supplies, appliances, 
etc., and to make reports as to new designs of apparatus, field 
equipment, etc. 
74 Medical officers will take up and account for all medical 
property of the Army that conies into their possession, and 
will report, when possible, to whose account it is to be cred- 
ited. 
(а) Officers will be held responsible for the serviceable and 
complete condition of all property in their possession, except 
such as may have been rendered unserviceable by fair wear 
and tear. 
(б) In the absence of a medical officer the officer designated 
to take charge of medical property (A. R. 659) will sign all 
property and administrative papers. 
ACCOUNTABILITY. 
75. When nonexpendable* articles are lost or destroyed the 
circumstances of the loss or destruction must be fully set forth 
in a certificate from the officer responsible for the property, 
or in a certificate of a commissioned officer cognizant of the 
facts, or, in the absence of these, in an affidavit of a noninter- 
ested person. If the evidence is considered satisfactory by 
the Surgeon General, the responsible officer will be so in- 
formed and authorized to drop the articles from his returns. 
If not satisfactory, he will be required to replace them at his 
own expense. 
76. Surgical instruments and appliances that require and 
are considered worth repairing will be reported to the Surgeon 
General through the chief surgeon, with a statement of the 
repairs needed. When requisition is made to complete a 
broken or imperfect instrument or apparatus, the name of 
the maker will be given. Instruments of different makes 
have been issued, and such information is required to insure 
the proper pattern and fit of the parts asked for. 
77. The responsible officer will cause all instruments in liis 
charge to be examined by a commissioned medical officer at 
least once each month. He will also once each year cause all 
* The names of all expendable articles are printed in the Supply Table in Roman 
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medical property in his charge to be carefully examined by a 
commissioned medical officer, and verified by the returns, 
invoices, etc. 
REPAIR OF FURNITURE. 
78. Officers will report to the Surgeon General such articles 
of furniture as may need and are considered worth repair or 
renovation by painting, varnishing, etc. This should be done 
by post labor, if practicable, request being made for authority 
to purchase necessary material. If not practicable, the officer 
will obtain one or more estimates in detail of cost of repair 
or renovation of such furniture, and forward them through 
the chief surgeon for the action of the Surgeon General. 
KETURNS OF MEDICAL PROPERTY. 
79. Officers in charge of medical property will prepare 
annually, on December 31, unless another date is fixed by the 
Surgeon General, or when relieved from the charge thereof, 
returns of medical property (Form No. 20) in duplicate, show- 
ing those articles on hand at last return, those received, 
expended, issued, and sold, and those remaining on hand. 
The original of this return will be promptly transmitted to 
the Surgeon General. The duplicate, with a complete set of 
vouchers, will be retained for the protection of the officer 
responsible for the property. 
(a) In exceptional cases a certified invoice may be offered 
by the issuing officer, in the absence of a receipt, as a substi- 
tute for the proper voucher, together with such additional 
evidence as he may possess in regard to the issue. 
(5) No interlineations or erasures will be made on the 
returns, and all articles not provided for in the printed head 
ings will be entered in proper order under the heading of 
additional articles. 
(c) In invoicing or accounting for broken packages, such 
as bottles, jars, etc., fractions will be given as ■), f. 
80. Articles issued to posts shall not he taken away by the 
officer on being relieved, nor when availing himself of a leave 
of absence, except by authority of the Surgeon General or of 
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UNSERVICEABLE PROPERTY. 
(See A. R. 1463.) 
81. Duplicate lists of unserviceable property will be 
forwarded direct to the Surgeon General. 
82. When condemned medical property is sold at public 
auction the officer responsible therefor will prepare an account 
of sales (Form No. 9) in duplicate. He will also prepare an 
invoice (Form No. 10) in duplicate, of the articles sold. The 
original of this account of sales, accompanied by the original 
invoice and a copy of the inventory and inspection report, will 
be sent at once to the Surgeon General; the duplicate copies 
of each will be filed by the officer with his retained set of 
vouchers. 
83. Medical officers receiving money from the sale of pub- 
lic property will deposit the same, without delay, in the near- 
est Government depository to the credit of the Treasurer of 
the United States, taking duplicate certificates of deposit 
therefor, the original of which will be forwarded by the 
depositor, without letter of transmittal, direct to the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C., and the duplicate 
retained by him. Should it be necessary to incur any expenses 
in connection with such sales they will be paid out of the 
total receipts before depositing the latter, in which case the 
expenses will be supported by properly prepared and receipted 
vouchers attached to the account of sales. 
USE OF MEDICAL PROPERTY. 
84. Medical officers in charge of hospital property will not 
permit it to he used for other than hospital purposes. (A. R. 
1443.) 
(а) Chief surgeons will report every violation of paragraph 
84; hut it is not to be construed as prohibiting medical officers 
from taking books and instruments from the hospital when 
necessary. 
(б) Under no circumstances will hospital bedding be used 
except within the hospital to which it has been supplied; nor 
will it be used by members of the hospital corps, except when 
on duty in the wards. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
(c) Hospital matrons are not entitled to hospital stores, 
except when prescribed for them as patients; the issue to them 
of soap or lye for laundry use is not authorized. 
(d) The issue of articles for use in the preparation of clean- 
ing mixtures, cosmetics, perfumery, use with spirit lamps, etc., 
is strictly prohibited. 
(e) The exchange of medicines with druggists is prohibited. 
85. Blankets not in use should be frequently examined, and 
occasionally shaken and hung out of doors. When stained and 
soiled, but otherwise in good condition, they should be washed 
and continued in service. When deemed necessary, authority 
will be given to have them washed at a steam laundry, if one 
is near the post. 
86. Laundry appliances will not be supplied to post hos- 
pitals. Washtubs will be furnished for the purpose of soaking 
sheets, clothing, etc., in disinfecting solutions. 
87. Cocoa matting, in strips 1 meter wide, is supplied for 
use on the floors of halls, but not for use on stairways or in 
wards. It should be laid in one strip, and zinc ends will be 
issued as required, two for each strip. It should not be nailed 
to the floor. 
88. Rubber and flexible catheters and bougies Avill be kept 
in the catheter box, using talc (French chalk) or glycerin to 
preserve them. 
89. Pieces of canvas of the proper size for litters will be 
issued as required to replace pieces that may become torn or 
unserviceable. If soiled, the canvas will be removed from the 
litter, washed, and replaced. 
90. Requests for vaccine virus will be made direct to the 
Surgeon General by information slip. On account of its lia- 
bility to become inert from various causes, especially from 
heat, it will be asked for in such quantities only as are needed 
for early use. 
VACCINE VIRUS 
DISINFECTANTS. 
91. The routine issue of disinfectants is prohibited. (A. It. 
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(a) Disinfectants are issued, as are medicines, to be used by 
medical officers when actually required for some specific pur- 
pose. Chloride of lime, carbolic acid, and mercuric chloride 
are issued by the Medical Department for use as disinfectants, 
properly so called. A solution containing 4 per cent of good 
chloride of lime, or 5 per cent of carbolic acid, is suitable for dis- 
infecting the excreta of patients with cholera or typhoid fever, 
or the sputa of patients suffering from diphtheria, scarlet fever, 
or tuberculosis. The floors, furniture, etc., in rooms occupied 
by patients suffering from an infectious disease may be washed 
with a 2 per cent solution of carbolic acid, or with a solution 
of mercuric chloride of 1-1000. Soiled bed linen, undercloth- 
ing, etc., used by such patients should be immersed in one of 
the above mentioned solutions before it is sent to the laundry. 
But in the absence of any infectious disease, these disinfecting 
agents are not required, and their expenditure for purposes of 
general post sanitation is not authorized. 
(b) Sulphate of iron and other cheap antiseptics and deo- 
dorants may be used when necessary. But the necessity for 
their use is a reproach upon the sanitary police of a post, and 
should only be required under exceptional circumstances. 
The alvine discharges of healthy persons do not require disin- 
fection, and when properly disposed of do not require treat- 
ment with any chemical agent whatever. If water-closets or 
earth closets are offensive, this is due to faulty construction, 
to insufficient supply of water or dry earth, or to neglect of 
ordinary cleanliness. The attempt to remedy such defects by 
the systematic use of antiseptics is expensive and unsatisfac- 
tory in its results. The same is true of foul drains, bad- 
smelling urinals, accumulations of garbage, etc. The proper 
remedy for such conditions is cleanliness and strict sanitary 
police. 
92. Wlien accumulations of organic material undergoing 
decomposition can not be removed or buried they may be 
treated with an antiseptic solution, or with freshly burned 
quicklime. Quicklime is also a valuable disinfectant, and 
may be substituted for the more expensive chloride of lime 
for disinfection of typhoid and cholera excreta, etc. For this Circular, 
No. 3. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Surgeon General’s Office, 
Washington, November 16, 1899 
The following is published for the information and guidance 
of medical officers of the Army: 
1. Paragraph 98, Manual for the Medical Department, is 
hereby revoked, and the following substituted: 
98. Clinical thermometers will be issued from medical supply 
depots on request by information slip approved by the chief 
surgeon of the department, to whom such requests should he 
sent. They are expendable. 
2. Clinical thermometers being expendable, certificates of 
breakage are no longer required, but chief surgeons will see 
that there is no unnecessary expenditure, and that they are 
not issued in unnecessary quantities. 
3. Typewriter ribbons, copying and record, will be issued 
from medical supply depots, on request by information slip, 
approved by the chief surgeon of the department. They are 
expendable. These ribbons dry rapidly and therefore become 
useless if kept on hand; one only at a time should be asked for. 
The kind of ribbon and of machine should be stated in request. 
GEO. M. STERNBERG, 
Approved 
Surgeon General, U. S. Army. 
Elihu Root, 
Secretary of War. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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purpose freshly prepared milk of lime should be used, contain- 
ing about 1 part, by weight, of hydrate of lime to 8 of water. 
93. During the prevalence of an epidemic, or when there is 
reason to believe that infectious material has been introduced 
from any source, latrines and cesspools may be treated with 
milk of lime, in the proportion of 5 parts to 100 parts of the 
contents of the vault, and the daily addition of 10 parts for 100 
parts of daily increment of feces. 
STERILIZED DRESSINGS. 
94. Sterilized dressings will not be issued for post use. 
Their preparation is so simple and so well understood that 
they should be prepared as needed. First-aid packets will be 
reserved exclusively for field use, except those issued for 
instruction. 
95. Field furniture will not be used at posts, except when 
required for the instruction of men of the hospital corps. 
FIELD APPLIANCES. 
96. Medical and surgical chests will be frequently inspected 
and kept in perfect order for immediate field use. Under no 
circumstances will their contents be used at posts: 
97. In time of war every officer and enlisted man will be 
furnished a first-aid packet by the Medical Department. 
(a) For purposes of instruction first-aid packets will be 
obtained by the surgeons of posts, upon special requisitions, 
and will be supplied by them to company commanders. 
The allowance for this purpose will be twenty packets for 
each company of infantry, battery of artillery, or troop of 
cavalry. The dressings contained in these packets can be 
used repeatedly for the practical instruction of officers and 
enlisted men, and after being used for this purpose they should 
be repacked in the original form. 
(b) First-aid packets are expendable, but care should be 
exercised to prevent any unnecessary expenditure; officers 
will be held strictly accountable for their proper and econom- 
ical use. 
98. Clinical thermometers are issued by the Surgeon Gen- 
eral upon request by information slip direct, stating number 
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on hand, and accompanied by a certificate of the medical ofti 
cer in case of breakage, giving the name of the person who 
caused such loss and the number of the thermometer. 
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METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS. 
99. Meteorological instruments are not issued by the Med- 
ical Department. When required for use at designated posts 
they will be obtained by application direct to. the Chief of the 
Weather Bureau, Department of Agriculture, Washington, 
D. C., specifying explicitly the kind of instruments required. 
The following will be issued: Maximum and minimum ther- 
mometers, rain and snow gauges, and measuring rods. When 
such instruments are broken or unserviceable the request for 
new ones will contain a statement setting forth the circum- 
stances attending the breakage, and, if a thermometer, the 
parts of the instrument will be returned to the office of the 
Weather Bureau by mail. Receipts for these instruments will 
be made out by the surgeon of the post on forms forwarded 
with the instruments, and when relieved from duty at the 
station he will so notify the Chief of the Weather Bureau, in 
order that the responsibility for the property may be properly 
transferred. Meteorological instruments heretofore issued 
by the Medical Department will be borne upon the property 
returns until broken or worn out. Such as may be issued by 
the Weather Bureau will not be taken up on these returns. 
100. Meteorological observations will he taken and registers 
thereof kept at such posts as may he designated by the Surgeon 
General, to whom a report of the observations (Form No. 29), 
which shall be a true copy of the register, will be forwarded 
by the senior medical officer at the end of every month. 
WINDOW CURTAINS, SCREENS, AND BOOKCASES. 
101. When window curtains and fixtures, window and door 
screens, and portable bookcases are required, the requisitions 
therefor will be special, and should be accompanied by an esti- 
mate of the cost of making suitable articles at or near the post. 
Wire netting will be furnished to repair such window and 
door screens as have become unserviceable. 
(a) When the present supply of bed screens is exhausted 
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made to have frames constructed at the post, giving estimate 
of the cost; they will not in future be covered with liolland, 
but sheets will be placed on the screens and frequently washed. 
PRESCRIPTIONS. 
(See A. K. 1461.) 
102. All prescriptions will be placed on file at the hospital; 
those for liquors will be placed on a separate file. 
CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL SETS. 
103. Chemical and bacteriological sets will be issued to the 
larger posts, and officers to whom these sets are furnished will 
make an annual report on December 31, showing what use has 
been made of them. 
ABANDONMENT OF POSTS. 
104. Unless modified by special instructions from the Sur- 
geon General, tlie following general rules will be observed in 
the disposition of medical property upon the abandonment of 
a post: 
(a) Medicines, dressings, clothing, bedding, and miscella- 
neous articles in good and serviceable condition should be sent 
to other posts in the department. 
(b) Unserviceable property should be submitted to the action 
of an inspector, with a view to final disposition by sale or 
destruction. 
(c) Only such nonexpendable articles as are in perfect order, 
including recent medical works, and all instruments which can 
not be transferred to other posts without unnecessary dupli- 
cation, should be turned into a medical supply depot. 
105. When a post is abandoned or a detachment is broken 
np, the medical officer will report the fact to the chief surgeon, 
and after completing all current reports, will forward them to 
the Surgeon General, together with the Clothing Book, Descrip- 
tive and Deposit Book, and Muster and Pay Rolls, and all 
official papers, records, and record books pertaining to the 
Medical Department of the post. 
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MEDICAL BOOKS AND JOURNALS. 
106. Such new books as may be selected by the Surgeon 
General will be furnished without requisition. 
107. The library of the Surgeon General’s office is intended 
for reference rather than for circulation, but books that can 
be readily replaced will be loaned to medical officers of the 
Army, they being held responsible for the safe return of the 
volumes within two weeks from the day of their receipt. In 
special cases this time may be extended. 
108. Medical journals and periodicals issued by the Surgeon 
General are to be considered as belonging to the hospital or 
station to which they are sent. They will be kept on file, and 
medical officers, on taking station, will ascertain that the files 
are complete. When a post is discontinued a list of journals 
and periodicals will be sent, through the chief surgeon, to 
the Surgeon General, who will give directions as to their 
disposition. 
ICE MACHINES. 
109. Ice machines are issued to such southern posts as are 
unable to obtain, by purchase, ice for the use of the sick. They 
are furnished by the Medical Department to supply ice for the 
sick in hospital, and not for the comfort or convenience of the 
garrison at large. They will be accounted for and invoiced 
in detail. 
110. Medical officers will pay special attention to the details 
of the manufacture of ice, both as to the proper management 
of the apparatus and to the financial results from the sale of 
ice, and will be held responsible for the condition of these 
machines and the results obtained. 
111. In order to provide for the maintenance of the appara- 
tus in complete running order, and to promptly pay hills in- 
curred for repairs, a fund of at least $300 will be kept con- 
stantly on hand. When this fund is reduced by necessary 
expenses, such change will be made in the price at which ice 
is sold as will speedily restore it to the above minimum amount. 
The fund will be used for the following purposes only: 
(a) Running expenses proper, and repairs; fuel, when it can 
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When renewal of heavy parts of the apparatus is required, 
application will be made to the Surgeon General to secure 
their transportation. The purchase and transportation of 
ammonia in reservoirs will he paid for from the ice fund. 
Great care will be exercised to obtain such articles in time to 
allow of their shipment as freight, and not by express, and 
before the regular working of the apparatus is prevented by 
their absence. 
(b) An engineer and one assistant is usually a sufficient force 
to run an ice machine. No fixed rate can be made as to the 
compensation of the engineer, that being regulated by cir- 
cumstances. 
(c) The detail, on special duty at the ice machine, of one 
enlisted man is authorized, and lie may be paid a gratuity of 
not exceeding fifty cents per day. 
(d) The purchase from the ice fund of articles which may 
be bought from the hospital fund is prohibited. In excep- 
tional cases, authority for a temporary transfer of money from 
the ice fund to the hospital fund may be obtained by applica- 
tion to the Surgeon General, setting forth fully the reasons 
for such request; but if given, the authority will not be con 
sidered as constituting a precedent for such transfers. Bills 
incurred will be filed at post as vouchers. 
(e) Payment for the delivery of ice is not considered to be a 
proper charge against the fund. If it can not be delivered in 
a garrison free of expense, it should be issued only when called 
for at the place of manufacture. Payment for the collection 
of bills for ice furnished is also unauthorized. 
112. The price at which ice is sold will be fixed by the 
medical officer in charge, subject to the approval of the chief 
surgeon. It may vary from month to month, according to the 
amount of and demand upon the ice fund. 
113. After freely supplying the hospital, ice should, as a 
rule, he sold to companies, to officers, to the commissary of the 
post for the preservation of fresh beef, and to enlisted men and 
their families, at a certain price; to the post exchange and to 
quartermaster’s employees at a somewhat higher price; and 
to civilians not in Government employ at a still higher price. 
The gratuitous issue of ice, except to the hospital and to 44 
patients entitled to medicines and medical attendance for 
whom it may be specially prescribed, is unauthorized. 
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114. When the officer responsible for the fund is relieved 
from duty, its transfer will be acknowledged by receipts writ- 
ten across the face of the last statement sent to the Surgeon 
General, and of the one retained at post. The ice machine 
will be accounted for in accordance with regulations. 
ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM. 
(See A. R. 1130.) 
115. Medical officers, and others interested in the progress 
of medical science, are invited to forward contributions to 
the Army Medical Museum. Besides interesting medical and 
surgical specimens, the following classes of articles will be 
collected and forwarded by those medical officers who have 
opportunities for so doing: (1) Rare pathological specimens 
from animals, including monstrosities; (2) typical crania of 
Indian tribes, specimens of their arms, dress, implements, rare 
articles of their diet, medicines, etc.; (3) specimens of poison- 
ous insects and reptiles, and of their effects on animals. 
Soft tissues are preferably placed in a 20 per cent solution 
of commercial formaldehyde (or formalin); the specimen 
being completely covered by the solution. The fluid on very 
soft tissue, or large masses of tissue, such as the liver, spleen, 
etc., should be changed after two or three days. When for- 
malin is not obtainable, commercial alcohol may be used. 
Bones and joints, after having been roughly cleaned, may be 
simply wrapped in a cloth wet with the preservative solution, 
and then again wrapped in oiled paper or silk. 
Since glass and earthenware vessels are liable to be broken in 
transit, with escape of their fluid contents and damage to the 
specimens, the use of tin vessels is recommended, the covers 
to be tightly soldered on. Whatever vessel is used should be 
packed in sawdust, excelsior packing, stiff paper, or equiva- 
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be sent by mail; and wet specimens also, if inclosed in the 
boxes which have been approved by the Post Office Depart- 
ment. 
Specimens should be carefully numbered, and a letter of 
information forwarded to the Museum when the specimen is 
shipped; the letter to contain the number of the specimen, a 
description of its nature, and, if possible, its history. 
Although paragraph 1130, A. R., provides for the transpor- 
tation of all such contributions through the Quartermaster’s 
Department, it should be known that if the importance of 
the object, or security demands a more prompt delivery, the 
package may be shipped to the Curator of the Museum by 
express, the charges to be paid here. The receipt of any pack- 
age will be duly acknowledged, and credit given for the con- 
tribution. 
REPORTS AND RETURNS. 
(See A. R. 1393, 1464, 1466.) 
116. Medical officers will, on the last day of every month, 
report to the Surgeon General their stations and duties during 
the month, giving a brief resume of the service performed by 
them. They will also immediately report any change in their 
station and duties, stating the authority therefor, with num- 
ber, date, and source of order in each case. 
117. It is not necessary to report in full every month in the 
sanitary report required by A. R. 1393 when no change in the 
conditions has taken place since last report. A general state- 
ment under each of the headings should be made, with a 
reference to previous reports containing more extended infor- 
mation on the subject. But important changes in the sani- 
tary conditions occurring during the month should be fully 
described. 
(a) If the subjects to be reported require more space than 
is provided by the blank form, use may be made of ordinary 
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(6) It is to be observed that although these sanitary reports 
are valuable as furnishing a record of conditions, changes, 
and recommendations, they are not always the best form 
of communication for suggestions requiring administrative 
action. Medical officers having important recommendations 
to make should invite attention to their subject in a special 
communication or report. 
118. Tlie senior surgeon of each hospital, post, regiment, or 
detachment will prepare and forward the following reports: 
(a) Daily.—(1) Report of sick and wounded, for the com- 
manding officer; (2) report of the detachment of the hospital 
corps, for the commanding officer. 
(b) Monthly. — (1) Sanitary report (Form No. 41); (2) report 
of sick and wounded (Form No. 25), which will he an exact 
copy of the register of patients, to be made in duplicate on the 
last day of every month, one to he sent to the chief surgeon 
and one to the Surgeon General; (3) return of the hospital 
corps (Form No. 32), to he made in duplicate on the last day 
of each month, one to be sent to the chief surgeon and one to 
the Surgeon General direct; (4) monthly statement of the 
hospital fund and return of durable property (Form No. 35), 
to he forwarded to the chief surgeon, who will verify its cor- 
rectness and forward it to the Surgeon General; (5) report of 
meteorological observations (Form No. 29); (6) report of the 
physical examination of recruits (Form No. 30); (7) report of 
station and duty; (8) report of repairs to hospitals and hos- 
pital steward’s quarters; (9) report of issues and sales of medi- 
cines to civilians. 
(c) Yearly.—(1) Returns of medical property; (2) estimates 
for repairs to hospitals and hospital steward’s quarters. 
(d) Occasional.—(1) Report of epidemic diseases; (2) report 
of record books; (3) list of wounded; (4) report of deaths of 
officers; (5) report of desertions. 
(e) In the absence of a medical officer, the physician who 
renders professional service will sign papers of a professional 
character, such as reports of sick and wounded, surgical re- 
ports, morning sick reports, etc. 
119. On the appearance of the first recognized case of chol- 
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post or station, the medical officer in charge will at once 
report the fact to the chief surgeon and forward a duplicate of 
his report direct to the Surgeon General. Every medical officer 
in charge of cholera or yellow-fever patients will, in addition 
to the usual report of sick and wounded, render in duplicate, 
at the end of each month, a report (Form No. 27) containing a 
list of such patients, one of which he will forward to the chief 
surgeon and the other direct to the Surgeon General. At the 
close of the epidemic, or of his tour of service at the place, he 
will forward, with as little delay as practicable, a history of 
the epidemic, its origin or importation, its progress and de- 
cline, and the methods of treatment or prevention, with results; 
also results of autopsies. 
120. Medical officers will notify local boards of health of 
any cases of yellow fever, cholera, smallpox, or other conta- 
gious diseases that may occur at their posts of duty. 
121. The death of an officer, physician under contract, or 
hospital steward, will be immediately reported by the attend 
ing surgeon or nearest medical officer, to the chief surgeon 
and the Surgeon General. 
122. The report of record books pertaining to the Medical 
Department (Form No. 37) will he forwarded when an officer 
is relieved from duty or when a post is abandoned. The 
Descriptive and Deposit Book, the Clothing Book, and the 
Letter-press Book will be accounted for on this report. The 
Letter-press Book is not to he used as an ‘ official record” of 
letters and indorsements sent. Orders, letters, letters received, 
and indorsements may be kept in separate books and substi- 
tuted for the joint Order and Letter book and Letters received 
and Indorsement book. In all record books a statement ex- 
planatory of the contents will he pasted on the inside of the 
front cover. Care must be taken that signatures are made in 
these books wherever necessary. The Medical History of 
Post must be used exclusively for recording historical events 
in connection with the post, for the official indorsements on 
the report required by paragraph 1393, A. R., and for the 
entries specified in paragraph 158 of this Manual. Entries 
in record books will be continuous until the books are filled; 
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the date of commencement and of last entry to be noted on 
the report. In the column of remarks note whether or not 
each book is in use; if not, state the reason. If all record 
books are not on hand, requisition for a complete supply will 
be promptly made. 
SUPPLY DEPOTS. 
123. Medical officers in charge of supply depots will prepare 
at the end of each quarter— 
(a) A return, in duplicate, of medical property (Form No. 14). 
(b) A quarterly abstract of receipts and issues (Forms Nos. 
11, 12, and 13) in duplicate. 
124. Medical officers in charge of supply depots will keep 
the following books of record, and turn them over to their 
successors: Record of letters received, of letters sent, of 
moneys received, of moneys disbursed, of orders given for 
medical stores, of articles received, of articles expended, of 
articles on hand, of requisitions, of issues, of invoices of 
packages turned over to the Quartermaster’s Department, of 
contents of packages, and of employees. 
125. Information slips are intended for use by medical 
officers in cases where formal letters can be dispensed with, 
viz. personal reports of medical officers; changes in the status 
of hospital-corps members and of hospital matrons; requests 
for authority for the reenlistment of acting hospital stewards 
and privates; acknowledgements of receipt of S. G. O. cir- 
culars; requests for and acknowledgements of receipt of 
blank forms, clinical thermometers, typewriter ribbons, and 
vaccine virus; requests for special expenditures of the hospital 
fund; acknowledgements of receipt of funds for construction 
and repair of hospitals and hospital stewards’ quarters and 
monthly reports of progress of work; explanations concern- 
ing reports of sick and wounded and out line figure cards. 
They should not be used in any case requiring action by 
another bureau. Letter forms, such as “Sir: I have the 
honor,” and “Very respectfully,” will not be used. Indorse- 
ments should follow in sequence in the usual form. If neither 
remark nor action is required by the chief surgeon, his 
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receiving stamp will take the place of an indorsement, to 
which may be added the words “contents noted,” if deemed 
necessary. A memorandum will be entered on the stub, with 
the signature of the officer, to verify the record. 
REGISTER OF PATIENTS. 
126. The term “sick” or “wounded,” applied to an officer 
or soldier treated in hospital, means that he is so disabled as 
to be unfit for all military duty; applied to one treated in 
quarters, that he is partially disabled and unfit for all military 
duties, unless his fitness for certain duties is specifically stated 
by the medical officer. Under any of these conditions he is 
technically on the “sick report,” and his name should be 
borne on the Register of Patients. 
127. The entries on the Register of Patients will be made 
day by day as the cases are admitted, and will be continuous, 
i. e., without break from day to day, month to month, or year 
to year. Ordinarily there will be but one entry for each case, 
although it may be prolonged for months. Exceptionally, 
cases which present many complications may have to be car- 
ried forward to current date to secure space for a satisfactory 
record; but in all such cases the two entries should be con- 
nected by cross references. 
128. Officers or enlisted men who are excused from all or 
any part of their military duty, such as attendance on certain 
calls, drills, target practice, mounted duty, etc., because of 
physical disability, are to be borne upon the register until 
their cases are completed; officers and enlisted men excused 
from school duty merely, and capable of performing their 
strictly military duties, need not be so borne. A case pre- 
scribed for, but not excused from duty, will not ordinarily be 
entered on the register; but when it is of such a character as 
to have a probable bearing on the subsequent medical history 
of the individual, or when from the exigencies of the service 
the officer or soldier continues to perform his duties, notwith- 
standing his manifest disability, it should be recorded on the 
register with a statement to that effect. When the status of 
an officer or soldier absent from his post on ordinary leave or 
furlough becomes changed to absence on account of sickness, 
his case should be entered on the register. 
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129. The cases of retired officers and enlisted men, and of 
civilians, including general prisoners, taken into hospital for 
treatment, should be entered on the register. When the 
status of a soldier while sick in hospital becomes changed to 
civilian, the case of the soldier should be closed and a new 
entry made for the civilian. 
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130. When a patient absent sick from his command is 
admitted to hospital for treatment, the surgeon in charge of 
the hospital should notify the surgeon on whose register the 
patient is borne, and request a formal transfer of the case. 
When the patient leaves the said hospital as cured, trans 
ferred, etc., the record of his case should be so completed 
but if he leave the hospital uncured, or to resume a status of 
absent sick, the surgeon in charge of the hospital should send 
a transfer slip to the surgeon of the command to which the 
patient belongs, who should take the case up on his register. 
131 A book of transfer slips is furnished by the Surgeon 
General to meet the necessities of moving commands, which, 
passing near a post, may leave their sick and wounded for 
treatment. It should be used also when cases are sent from 
one post or hospital to another, by change of station of com- 
pany, for the sake of better accommodations, for benefit of 
climate, or for observation by the chief surgeon. The original 
slip should contain the patient’s name, military description, 
date of admission to sick report, name of disease or injury, 
and such details of the case as will probably be of value to 
the receiving officer. It will be signed by the medical officer 
who makes the transfer, and will be forwarded with the pa- 
tient. On the reverse of the slip the receiving officer will note 
the admission of the patient into hospital; and after carefully 
recording the information thereon in the register, he will for 
ward the slip with the next report of sick and wounded to 
the Surgeon General. In transfers to the Government Hos- 
pital for the Insane a slip containing a copy of the certificate 
that accompanied the soldier should be sent to the Surgeon 
General. The duplicates of the transfer slips will be left in 
the book and will form a part of the retained records of the 
hospital or command from which the soldiers were sent. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING THE REGISTER. 
132. In column I will be inscribed the patient’s number. 
Every case of sickness, death, discharge, etc., entered on the 
register will have a number for convenience of reference, and 
these numbers will be consecutive, and will *be carried for- 
ward indefinitely. In order that the medical history of a 
patient may be more readily traced, his last register number, 
if he has been previously on sick report at the post, should be 
entered immediately over his current number. In the excep- 
tional instances to which reference is made in paragraph 127, 
no change is made in the register number of the patient, which, 
with the name of the patient, should be entered fo secure 
identification, but no further repetition of the original entry 
is necessary, as the words “carried from page —” written 
after the name will suffice to connect the record. 
133. In column II the Christian name and surname should 
be entered in full; initial letters may be used for middle names. 
134. In columns III, IV, and V, calling for “Rank,” “Com- 
pany,” and “Regiment or Corps,” the usual abbreviations 
may be employed. 
135. In column VI the age at last birthday should be en- 
tered. This entry is understood to be made on the date of 
admission. 
136. In column VII the letter W., C., or I., meaning white, 
colored, or Indian, will be entered. 
137. Column VIII provides space for the State or country 
of birth. 
138. Column IX calls for the total number of years of service 
of the individual, whether continuous or not. 
139. In column X the day, month, and year of admission 
should be stated. Figures should not be used to designate 
the month. 
140. The source of admission called for in column XI is 
generally the command, but may be “from desertion,” etc. 
When patients are received from other hospitals or commands 
the name of the hospital or command should be given in each 
case with the date of last entry on sick report when known. 
Information on transfer slips, or on field registers when used 
for this purpose, accompanying such patients, should be care- 
fully recorded. 52 
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141. In column XII the cause or causes of admission should 
be stated; the name and location of the disease; cause, loca- 
tion, character, and severity of injury, with attendant cir 
cumstances, date of occurrence, and nature of missile, weapon, 
or other producing agent. It should be stated, also, whether 
the case is taken into the hospital or treated in quarters; and 
should a case in “quarters” be subsequently taken into “hos- 
pital,” or vice versa, the date of the change should be given. 
When there is more than one cause, and the disability associ- 
ated with any of them is cured before final disposition of the 
patient, the date of the said cure should be given. The diag- 
nosis reported on transfer slips received with patients, or on 
field registers when used for this purpose, should also be re- 
corded. In reporting data pertaining to this column, space 
may be utilized, if deemed advisable, by spreading the infor- 
mation across the face of the columns on the left, beginning 
in the proper space and continuing so that the statement can 
readily be followed. 
142. In recording the causes of admission medical officers 
will make use of such terms as will briefly and accurately 
describe the disease or injury, governing themselves so far as 
possible by the official nomenclature, paragraph 159. In this 
connection the following points should be held in view: 
(а) Pathological lesions should be recorded rather than their 
symptoms. 
(б) In all cases in which the cause of admission is a local 
manifestation of a general affection, the character and locality 
of the one and the nature of the other should be stated. 
(c) Diseases dxae to venereal contagion, the abiise of stimu- 
lants or narcotics, or to immoral practices, should be so re- 
corded. 
(d) Distinction should be made between the venereal ulcer 
known as chancroid and the hard chancre of primary syphilis. 
(e) Distinction should also be made between inflammations 
of venereal and nonvenereal origin, as in cases of balanitis, 
orchitis, bubo, etc., specifying the nature of the venereal cause 
and the causation in the nonvenereal cases. 
(/) Inflammatibns should be reported as acute or chronic. 
(g) The term “heart disease” should not be recorded when 
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(h) In pulmonary affections thelobe or lobes involved should 
be stated, as also whether the disease is confined to the right 
or left or extends to both lungs; the complications of pleurisy 
should be particularly noted. 
(i) Deviations from the normal in cases of impairment of 
vision or hearing should be ascertained and noted. 
(j) The exact location, variety, and cause of hernia should 
be given, and when strangulated the condition and the means 
employed for relief. * 
(k) Wounds should be designated as slightor severe; in gun- 
shot wounds, the points of entrance and exit of missile and 
the parts implicated should be recorded. 
(Z) Fractures should be designated as simple, comminuted, 
compound, or complicated, the character of the complications 
being stated. 
(m) When erysipelas, gangrene, pyemia, tetanus, etc., com- 
plicate cases of injury, the lesions associated with the compli- 
cation should be carefully described. 
(n) When an injury is accidental, homicidal, suicidal, or 
judicial, it should be stated, with particulars in each instance. 
(o) In cases of old injury constituting a cause of admission, 
the condition of the injured part at the date of current admis- 
sion should be stated. If there is no record of the original 
injury in the register, the date, place, cause, and attendant 
circumstances, with the authority for the statements, should 
be entered; but if the original case is already recorded a note 
of its register number in column XII or XIV will suffice to 
connect the history. 
(p) Special notes should be made of cases of malingering or 
feigned diseases, and of the means employed for their detection. 
(q) When no diagnosis can be reached the fact should be 
stated, together with the conditions which prevent the recog- 
nition of the disease or injury. 
143. In column XIII the opinion of the medical officer, based 
on a full consideration of all the facts as to whether the disease 
or injury occurred in the line of duty, should be explicitly 
stated as yes or no. In forming and recording this opinion 
medical officers will be guided by the following instructions: 
(a) All diseases contracted or injuries received while an offi- 
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may be assumed to have occurred in the line of duty, unless 
the surgeon knows, first, that the disease or injury existed 
before entering the service; second, that it was contracted 
while absent from duty on furlough or without permission; 
or, third, that it occurred in consequence of willful neglect or 
immoral conduct of the man himself. 
(b) When a soldier is disabled while on pass, or in confine- 
ment, the question of line of duty must be determined by the 
circumstances attending the incurrence of the disability, but 
the fact of being on pass or in confinement should be stated. 
(c) When a medical officer expresses the opinion that an 
injury occurring during athletic sports, properly indulged in. 
was received in the line of duty, the opinion is accepted by 
the Surgeon General as satisfactory and final. 
(d) In all cases in which the opinion is expressed by no, the 
circumstances attending the incidence of the disability, and 
on which the negative opinion is based, should be stated in 
column XII, or across the face of the columns on its left, if 
space can be economized in that way. 
144. In column XIV, surgical operations, unusual treatment, 
complications, intercurrent diseases, and change of diagnosis, 
with date of change, will be noted. If an intercurrent disease 
is in no way dependent on the primary affection the date of its 
occurrence should be given, and an opinion should be recorded 
as to its origination in the line of duty; but if the complicating 
disease coexisted on admission it should be recorded in column 
XII as one of the causes of admission, and an appropriate entry 
regarding it should be made in column XIII. 
145. Column XV provides space for tlie record of the dis- 
position made of the completed cases, and column XVI for 
the date, day, month, and year of the final disposition. In 
column XV should also he entered the date of departure and 
return in cases of leave of absence or furlough. When a pa- 
tient leaves his station on furlough or leave of absence on 
account of sickness, his case remains incompleted on the reg- 
ister until his return, when he resumes his status of present 
sick; but if during his absence he is admitted for treatment 
to some other hospital or command, or the organization to 
which he belongs is assigned to duty at some other station, MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
his case should be completed by formal transfer. On the 
other hand, if during his absence his ststtus becomes changed 
to absent on ordinary leave or furlough, his case should be 
completed as returned to duty. 
(a) When a patient is returned to duty the entry duty will 
suffice, the cure being assumed to be complete unless a state- 
ment to the contrary is entered. 
(b) In cases of retirement or discharge by expiration of term, 
by order, sentence, or operation of law, the fact should be 
specified; and a statement should be made of the degree of 
disability due to the complaint for which the individual was 
under treatment at the time of his removal from service, unless 
it was unquestionably not received in the line of duty. 
(c) In retirements or discharge on account of wounds or dis- 
ease, the cause and the degree of disability should be recorded, 
and if the cause be some other disability than that for which 
the patient was admitted, it should be stated whether it orig- 
inated in the line of duty; and in this instance, also, when the 
opinion expressed is no, the circumstances attending the inci- 
dence of the disability and on which the negative opinion is 
based, should be recorded. In all cases of discharge on cer- 
tificate of disability the date of discharge as given in the 
letter of notification from the adjutant .should be recorded. 
(cl) In the cases of those not upon sick report found incapac- 
itated for active service, and of those retired or discharged 
for disability, the nature of the disability, whether it origi- 
nated in the line of duty, and other facts of interest obtainable, 
together with the date of departure from post, will be entered. 
(e) The causes of deaths, and whether they originated in the 
line of duty, as alsb the results of autopsies, should be recorded 
in this column. 
(/) Deaths of officers and soldiers not on sick report, and ol 
retired officers, ex-officers and ex-soldiers with the command, 
should also be entered with appropriate details and a state- 
ment as to whether the cause of death originate 1 in the service 
and in the line of duty. 
(g) Should the cause of death in any case be unknown, a brief 
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should be entered. In cases of suicide the cstuse or causes 
which led to the act* should be stated. 
(h) When the disease or injury causing death or discharge 
has been aggravated by the willful and persistent refusal of 
the patient to submit to such reasonable restrictions, methods 
of treatment, or surgical operations as would, in the opinion 
of the medical officer, conduce to the cure or to the lessening 
of the disability, the fact should be noted. 
(i) In case of transfer to another hospital or command the 
specific destination of the patient, and whether for “benefit 
of climate,” “observation of the chief surgeon,” “change of 
station of company,” etc., with the authority for the transfer, 
should be stated. 
(j) In cases of desertion the name, rank, company, and regi- 
ment or corps of the individual should be repeated in column 
XV in connection with the entry completing his case. 
Should the individual return from desertion and his former 
status on sick report be resumed, his case will be entered on 
the current page of the register, but should the disease or 
injury for which he is taken on sick report on his return be 
different from that for which he was formerly under treat- 
ment, he will be reported as a new case admitted from the 
command. 
146. Entries in the register will be given sufficient space to 
prevent crowding or misconstruction (see paragraph 141), and 
be plainly written. No writing will be permitted to encroach 
on the margins of the register. Corrections should be authen- 
ticated by the initials of the surgeon, who will place his official 
signature at the foot of each page. 
FIELD REGISTER. 
147. For detached commands temporarily in the field on 
scouting expeditions, practice marches, or in summer camps, 
the blank form of “Report of Completed Cases,” sheet 2, Form 
No. 25, will he used as the “Field Register,” the headings of 
the sheets being made to correspond to their extemporized 
use. From the entries on this Field Register the report of 
sick and wounded will he made; and when all the cases have 
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of the field command are ultimately assigned, and have been 
so reported on the final report of sick and wounded from the 
said field command, the Field Register will be forwarded to 
the Surgeon General—by the surgeon of the command, if he 
has transferred his cases by slips, or by the surgeon of the 
receiving station if the Field Register has been turned over to 
him to effect the transfer of the uncompleted cases to the per- 
manent register of his j)ost. 
148. In time of war, medical officers on duty with such 
organizations as battalions, regiments, batteries, etc., will 
enter their cases in a register, and will make up their report 
of sick and wounded in accordance with regulations. Sep- 
arate registers should be kept and reports of sick and wounded 
made out for regular and for volunteer troops. Transfer for 
treatment or better accommodation to the division, brigade, 
or other field hospital of the command will be regarded as 
completing a case on the battalion or regimental register; 
but the sending a man for transportation merely will not be 
considered in the light of a transfer. In formal transfers to 
the field hospital slips need not be used, as the transfer should 
be made personally by a medical officer or noncommissioned 
officer, who should see that the executive officer of the hos- 
pital is furnished with all needful information for his record 
of the case. 
149. When those who are unable to march are to be sent 
from the command to some hospital other than the division, 
brigade, or other field hospital, the surgeon of the command 
will enter on his register the names, etc., of those who are 
to be sent away; and when he has furnished a copy of this list 
to the officer who is to take charge of the sick on their journey, 
he will complete their cases on his register by transfer en route 
to the hospital which is understood to be their destination. 
150. To prepare a list of wounded (see A. R. 1466), the 
medical officer will enter on his register the names of all those 
of the command who are officially known to him as having 
been killed or wounded. As a member of the battalion or 
regimental stalf the medical officer cooperates with company 
commanders in providing the materials for the field report of 
killed, wounded, and missing sent by the commanding officer 
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to the Adjutant General as the official record of the losses. 
The information gathered for this purpose at the dressing 
stations in the field, and subsequently by inspection of the 
wards and registers of the field hospitals, will enable him to 
perfect his own register by completing thereon by transfer to 
the division, brigade, or other field hospital all those cases that 
have already been taken up on the register of the latter, and 
retaining as uncompleted only those that remain under his 
personal care with the regiment or detachment. From this 
register thus perfected the list of wounded above mentioned 
will be prepared. 
151. The officer in charge of the records of a division, bri- 
gade, or other field hospital, will enter in a permanent register 
the cases that are received by transfer from the medical officers 
of the command; and from the entries thereon the report of 
sick and wounded will be made out in accordance with regula- 
tions. Cases will be considered completed, so far as the reg- 
isters of these hospitals are concerned, when the patients are 
transferred to any other hospital. 
152. In all cases of transfer the medical officer in charge of 
the train of sick and wounded should, if possible, be provided 
with a nominal list of the patients intrusted to his care. He 
should verify this list personally, or, if the train be large, by 
his subordinates; and when arrived at his destination should 
turn it over to the medical officer of the receiving hospital. 
Should any of his cases be lost en route by death, capture,etc., 
he will note the facts on the list of transfers against each case 
so lost and report these facts and names to the Surgeon 
General. 
153. If the military conditions are such that it is impossible 
for the officer in charge of the records of the division, brigade, 
or other field hospital to furnish a list of the sick and wounded 
that are to be transferred, the medical officer in charge of the 
train should verify the number of men turned over to him, 
and have the nominal list made out while en route. Should 
he be unable to accomplish this, the names of those who seem 
to be in danger of death should be taken so as to be able, if 
the events should require it, to make report to the Surgeon 
General. • MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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154. The senior surgeon in charge of men sent direct from 
military commands in the field (see paragraph 149), will report 
the losses that occur during the period of his responsibility; 
so, also, when patients are left behind by the advance or 
retreat of a division, brigade, or other field hospital the senior 
surgeon left with them will take measures, if he has not been 
furnished with a nominal list, for the identification of his 
patients, for their subsequent transfer, and for the notification 
of losses by death or other causes. 
REPORT OF SICK AND WOUNDED. 
155. The report of sick and wounded will be made on Form 
No. 25, sheets 1 and 2. If a hospital is opened or closed dur- 
ing the month the orders to this effect should be stated on the 
report. 
(a) In time of war only one copy of this report, see para- 
graph 118 (?>), is required to be made out. It should be 
forwarded from general hospitals direct to the Surgeon Gen- 
eral, and from organizations and hospitals in the field to the 
Surgeon General through the chief surgeon. 
156. If there has been no case on sick report, either remain- 
ing from last report or admitted during the month, the report 
of sick and wounded will nevertheless be forwarded. It will 
give the name and strength of the command, etc., with such 
remarks as the circumstances may suggest as of interest to 
the chief surgeon or the Surgeon General. 
157. In case of the occurrence of smallpox, and the vac- 
cination of the command, the results of the vaccination will 
he given in a special report on the measures taken for the 
suppression of the disease; or they may he entered in the col- 
umn of remarks on the left of the first page of the report of 
sick and wounded in connection with the cases of vaccinia 
that have been treated. 
158. Medical officers will keep in the Medical History of the 
Post a recoi’d of births and marriages, and of those deaths the 
record of which has not been provided for elsewhere, and will 
report concerning them in the column on the right of the 
first page of the report of sick and wounded. In cases of 
birth, there should be entered the date, the sex, and name of 
the child, and the name, sank, etc., of the father, maiden name MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
of the mother, and whether this child is the first or second, 
etc., resulting from the marriage. In cases of marriage, the 
date and names should be recorded with the rank or occupa- 
tion of the man and the age and birthplace of the woman. In 
cases of death, the date and cause, together with the name, 
sex, and age of the individual. 
NOMENCLATURE OF DISEASES. 
159. Diseases and injuries reported by medical officers on 
tlieir report of sick and wounded will hereafter be classified 
in accordance with the arrangement in the following list : 
Classified List of Causes of Admission to Sick Report. 
I.—INFECTIOUS DISEASES, GENERAL AND LOCAL. 
Scarlet fever. 
Measles. 
Rdtheln. 
Variola. 
Varioloid. 
Vaccinia. 
Varicella. 
Typhus fever. 
Influenza. 
Dengue. 
Mumps. 
Whooping cough. 
Diphtheria. 
Typhoid fever. 
Cholera. 
Yellow fever. 
Cerebrospinal meningitis. 
Malarial fever, intermittent. 
Malarial fever, remittent or continued. 
Malarial fever, pernicious. 
Malarial cachexia. 
Fevers of undetermined causation. 
Anthrax. 
Glanders. 
Erysipelas. 
Septicemia. 
Rheumatic fever.* 
Tetanus. 
Tuberculosis of the lungs. 
Tuberculosis of other organs. 
Carcinoma.* 
Sarcoma.* 
Trichinosis. 
Syphilis. 
Gonorrhea. 
Gonorrheal epididymitis and orchitis. 
Chancroid and results. 
Other diseases of this class. 
Locai, infections which ake also enterf.d under “ Structural and functional 
DISEASES OF ORGANS.” 
Scabies. 
Dermatophyti. 
Tonsillitis. 
Pericarditis. 
Endocarditis. 
Phlebitis. 
Bronchitis, acute. 
Pneumonia, croupous. 
Pleurisy, acute. 
Dysentery, acute. 
Peritonitis, acute. 
Meningitis. 
Appendicitis. 
Pyelitis and Pyelonephritis. 
Cystitis. 
Lymphangeitis. 
Adenitis, nonvenereal. 
Abscess. 
Furuncle. 
Carbuncle. 
Hospital gangrene. 
Whitlow. 
Anemia. 
Leucocythemia. 
Glycosuria. 
IT.—DISEASES OF NUTRITION, GENERAL. 
Gout. 
Scurvy. 
Other diseases of this class. 
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III.—STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL DISEASES OF ORGANS. 
A. Diseases of the Nervous System. 
Alcoholism, acute. 
Alcoholism, chronic. 
Delirium tremens. 
Apoplexy. 
Cerebral congestion. 
Chorea. 
Epilepsy. 
Insanity. 
Locomotor ataxia. 
Meningitis. 
Myelitis. 
Narcotic poisoning, acute. 
Narcotic poisoning, chronic or diug habit 
Neuritis. 
Neuralgia. 
Neurasthenia. 
Nostalgia. 
Paralysis. 
Other diseases of this class. 
B. Diseases of the Digestive System. 
Corrosive and irritant poisons, effects of. 
Diseases of the salivary glands and ducts. 
Diseases of the teeth, gums, and alveoli. 
Diseases of the mouth and tongue. 
Tonsillitis. 
Pharyngitis. 
Peritonitis, acute. 
Dyspepsia. 
Gastritis. 
Gastric ulcer and hemorrhage. 
Colic. 
Constipation. 
Tenia or other intestinal parasites. 
Cholera morbus. 
Diarrhea, acute. 
Diarrhea, chronic. 
Enteritis. 
Appendicitis. 
Dysentery, acute. 
Dysentery, chronic. 
Hemorrhage, intestinal. 
Fistula inano. 
Hemorrhoids. 
Biliary colic and calculi. 
Jaundice, catarrhal. 
Hepatitis. 
Hepatic cirrhosis. 
Other diseases of this class. 
C. Diseases of the Circulatory System. 
Angina pectoris. 
Cardiac irritability. 
Cardiac degeneration. 
Pericarditis. 
Endocarditis. 
Valvular disease and results. 
Thrombosis and embolism. 
Aneurism. 
Varicose veins. 
Phlebitis. 
Other diseases of this class. 
D. Diseases of the Respiratory Organs. 
Larynx, diseases of. 
Coryza. 
Bronchitis, acute. 
Bronchitis, chronic. 
Bronchitis, capillary. 
Emphysema. 
Asthma. 
Pulmonary congestion. 
Pulmonary hemorrhage. 
Pneumonia, catarrhal. 
Pneumonia, croupous. 
Pleurisy. 
Other diseases of this class. 
Pyelitis and pyelonephritis. 
Nephritis, acute parenchymatous. 
Nephritis, chronic parenchymatous. 
Renal cirrhosis. 
Calculus, renal. 
Calculus, vesical. 
Cystitis. 
Enuresis. 
Retention of urine, 
Hematuria. 
E. Diseases of the Genito-urinary System. 
Prostatitis. 
Prostatic hypertrophy. 
Urethral stricture. 
Balanitis, nongonorrheal. 
Paraphimosis. 
Phimosis. 
Varicocele. 
Hematocele. 
Hydrocele. 
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F. Diseases of the Lymphatic System and Ductless Glands. 
Adenitis. • 
Lymphangeitis. 
Splenic hypertrophy. 
Other diseases of this class. 
G. Diseases of the Muscles, Bones, ano Joints. 
Muscular contraction. 
Muscular rheumatism and myalgia. 
Whitlow. 
Osteitis and results. 
Periostitis. 
Arthritis. 
Arthritis, chronic rheumatic. 
Bunion. 
Synovitis. 
Other diseases of this class. 
H. Diseases of the Integument and Subcutaneous Connective Tissue. 
Corns and warts. 
Ingrowing nail. 
Chilblain. 
Abscess. 
Furuncle. 
Carbuncle. 
Ulcer. 
Hospital gangrene. 
Dermatitis from poisonous plants. 
Erythema ta. 
Psoriasis. 
Prurigo and lichen. 
Herpes. 
Eczema and pemphigus. 
Impetigo and acne. 
Scabies. 
Dermatophyti. 
Other diseases of this class. 
I. Diseases of Organs of Special Sense. 
(a) Diseases of the eye. 
Lids, diseases of. 
Lachrymal apparatus, diseases of. 
Conjunctivitis, acute. 
Conjunctivitis, chronic. 
Corneitis. 
Sclerotitis. 
Choroid, diseases of. 
Iritis. 
Retinitis. 
Snow-blindness. 
Asthenopia. 
Cataract. 
Glaucoma. 
Amaurosis. 
Night blindness. 
Other diseases of the eye. 
(6) Diseases of the ear. 
Diseases of external ear. 
Diseases of the tvmpanum. 
Diseases of middle and internal ear. 
Earache. 
Deafness. 
(c) Diseases of the nose. 
Nasal catarrh, chronic. 
Nasal hemorrhage. 
Nasal polypus. 
IV.—ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES. 
A. General Injuries. 
Burns and scalds, general. 
Crushing. 
Drowning. 
Exhaustion from fatigue or exposure. 
Explosion. 
Freezing. 
Hanging. 
Insolation. 
Lightning. 
Starvation, exclusive of disease. 
Suffocation, exclusive of disease. 
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B. Injuries to Special Parts. 
Abrasions and blisters, mechanical. 
Burns and scalds, local. 
Compression of the brain. 
Concussion of the brain. 
Concussion of the spine. 
Contusions and sprains. 
Dislocations. 
Foreign bodies, presence of. 
Fracture, exclusive of gunshot. 
Frostbite. 
Hernia, inguinal. 
Hernia, other. 
Orchitis, from injury. 
Strain, muscular. 
Wounds, contused. 
Wounds, incised. 
Wounds, lacerated. 
Wounds, punctured. 
Wounds, gunshot. 
Secondary results of local injury. 
Other local injuries. 
V.—UNCLASSIFIED. 
Malingering. 
Under observation, not diagnosed, or 
unknown. 
Homicide. 
Suicide. 
Self-maiming. 
Judicial execution. 
160. Medical officers in recording the causes of admission 
to sick report will make use of this nomenclature in all cases 
for which a specific title is provided. Experience has shown 
that it includes most of the causes of disability likely to occur 
in army practice. In recording cases for which a title is not 
specially provided, as, for instance, those which, in a consoli- 
dation of the statistics, would be tabulated under “Diseases 
of the mouth and tongue,” “Diseases of the external ear,” 
etc., or thrown among “Other diseases of this class,” such 
terms will he used as will briefly and accurately describe the 
disease or injury, while conforming as far as possible to the 
nomenclature generally accepted by the profession. Medical 
officers will report in this way also when the cases are to he 
consolidated on the classified list under a generic term, as in 
certain of the diseases of the skin. 
(a) The organ or part affected should he specified when the 
name of the morbid condition fails to indicate it, as in paraly- 
sis, aneurism, ulcer, herpes, etc., as also in inflammations, as 
adenitis, osteitis, arthritis, synovitis, etc., and in local injuries, 
as abrasions, burns, contusions, dislocations, etc. 
(b) The surgical characteristics of wounds, fractures, lierniae, 
etc., should be stated; and in cases of poisoning the name of 
the poison should be given. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
OPERATIONS FOR HERNIA. 
161. Cases of hernia suitable for an operation should receive 
surgical treatment. Operations for the radical cure of hernia 
will be performed by medical officers specially designated by 
the Surgeon General. Medical officers will report cases of 
hernia considered favorable for operation to the Surgeon 
General. If the case is considered unsuitable for operation, 
the fact will be noted upon the certificate of disability. 
CERTIFICATES OF DISABILITY. 
(See A. R. 140, 141, 154-157, 174, 844, 847.) 
162. In cases of discharge of enlisted men on surgeon’s cer- 
tificate of disability, the certificate of the surgeon will be filled 
out in his own handwriting 
EXAMINATION OF RECRUITS 
(See A. R. 841-848.) 
163. The minimum height of a recruit is at present fixed at 
five feet four inches for all branches of the service, although 
recruiting.officers are allowed to exercise their discretion as to 
the enlistment of desirable recruits (such as band musicians, 
school-teachers, tailors, etc.), who may fall not more than 
one-fourth of an inch below the minimum standard of height; 
the maximum height for the cavalry service is five feet ten 
inches; that for infantry and artillery is governed by the 
maximum of weight, to which should be applied the rule for 
proportion in height (see par 179). 
164. Tlie minimum weight for all recruits is one hundred 
and twenty-five pounds, except for the cavalry, in which enlist- 
ments may be made without regard to a minimum weight, 
provided the chest measurement and chest mobility are satis- 
factory. The maximum for infantry and artillery is one hun- 
dred and ninety pounds; for .cavalry and light artillery, one 
hundred and sixty-five pounds. 
165. The chest mobility, i. e., the difference between the 
measurement at inspiration and expiration, should be at least 
two inches in men below five feet seven inches in height, and 
two and one-half inches in those above that height. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
65 
166. When authorized by the War Department under A. R. 
838, clause 5, and A. R. 839, recruiting officers may reenlist 
discharged soldiers who present themselves within the pre- 
scribed limit of time, notwithstanding they may have some 
physical disqualification which would cause their rejection as 
recruits; Provided, they have no serious defect which would 
probably prevent the discharge of their duties as soldiers. In 
all such cases the defects and the fact that they existed prior 
to reenlistment will be noted on the soldier’s reenlistment 
papers and examination form. 
REENLISTMENTS. 
Note.—In modifying the requirements for reenlistment, it is the intention of the 
War Department to provide for the continuance in service of such faithful soldiers 
as have incurred disabilities during prior enlistments which probably will not unfit 
them for duty in the future; as, for example, hernia, which is kept in place by 
wearing a truss; piles; varicose vqjns ; certain defects of vision, as near or farsight; 
the loss of certain fingers or toes; mutilations by gunshot or other wounds, etc. 
MODE OF EXAMINING A RECRUIT. 
167. In passing a recruit, the examining officer is to exam- 
ine him stripped; to see that he has the free use of his limbs; 
that his chest is ample; that his hearing, vision, and speech 
are perfect; that he has no tumors or ulcerated or extensively 
cicatrixed legs; no rupture or chronic cutaneous affection; 
that he has not received any contusion or wound of the head 
that may impair his faculties; that he is not a drunkard; is not 
subject to convulsions, and has no infectious or other disorder 
that may unfit him for military service. The recruit must 
be effective, able-bodied, sober, free from disease, and of good 
character and habits. 
Note.—The leading characteristics of a good constitution are thus enumerated 
byTripler: “A tolerably just proportion between the different parts of the trunk 
and members ; a well-shaped head, thick hair, a countenance expressive of health, 
with a lively eye; skin not too white, lips red, teeth white and in good condition ; 
voice strong, skin firm, chest well formed, belly lank, parts of generation well 
developed, limbs muscular, feet arched and of a moderate length ; hands large. The 
gait should be sprightly and springy, speech prompt and clear, and manner cheer- 
ful. All lank, slight, puny men, with contracted figures, whose development is, as 
it were, arrested, should be set aside. The reverse of the characteristics of a good 
constitution will indicate infirm health or a weakly habit of body; loose, flabby, 
white skin; long, cylindrical neck; long, fiat feet; very fair complexion ; fine hair; 
wan, sallow countenance,” etc. 
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168. The room in which the examination is conducted should 
be well lighted and large enough for the men to exercise in 
walking, running, and jumping, as every organ directly 
concerned in locomotion should be subjected to inspection. 
Only those persons who are absolutely required should be 
present at the examination. 
169. The person of the recruit should be washed with soap 
and water before he is presented for inspection. It is not, 
however, believed to be good policy to enlist men who, though 
able-bodied and intelligent, appear at recruiting stations in 
ragged or filthy dress, as the chances are such men are tramps 
and vagabonds and will not make good soldiers. Men who, 
though attired in clean and respectable clothing, are found to 
be filthy in their persons, should be promptly rejected for like 
reason. 
170. Thoroughness in the preliminary examination is as- 
sured by a methodical inquiry into the family and personal 
history of the applicant, whose replies should be recorded at 
the time. For this purpose a printed form is furnished by 
the Adjutant General (form for the physical examination of 
a recruit). The form also serves as evidence, should the 
recruit allege unfitness from a defect that is feigned, or be 
subsequently found unfitted for duty on account of one which 
has been concealed. 
171. The questions prescribed in this form are intended 
simply as the guide to a careful and searching examination 
into the physical history of the applicant for enlistment. If 
his replies suggest the existence of any infirmity or defect, 
special inquiry should be made concerning it, in order that 
the most complete information may be elicited. The ques- 
tions, and any others necessary to develop his fitness for the 
duties of a soldier, should be asked and the man’s replies 
recorded, by the recruiting officer, before he is stripped, after 
which the examination is proceeded with. 
172. In the absence of a commissioned medical officer or 
contract surgeon, recruiting officers are authorized to employ 
a civilian physician to make the physical examination of re 
emits preceding enlistment required by Army Regulations. 67 
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173. If there is a medical officer, contract surgeon or 
civilian physician, he will make and record the physical ex- 
amination. Otherwise, the recruiting officer will perform 
this duty. In the latter event the form will remain with or 
follow the recruit until he has undergone examination by a 
physician, who will note the same upon the front fold. It 
will then be forwarded without delay to the Surgeon General, 
except as provided in paragraphs 844 and. 847, A. R. 
174. Each peculiarity or deviation from the normal standard 
is to be noted on the form for the physical examination of a 
recruit. 
175. If a careful inspection is made and a defect is noted, 
which is not-considered by the officer making the examina- 
tion to be disqualifying, he is relieved from responsibility; 
but if he passes a recruit who has a serious defect, which is 
discernible by an ordinary layman, and enlists the man with- 
out noting the defect upon the examination form and the 
enlistment paper, it evidences neglect in the examination. 
176. Before recruits leave the station for the rendezvous or 
post they should be carefully reexamined and a statement to 
that effect made on the form, with a note descriptive of any 
defect which may have been discovered or contracted since 
the enlistment. 
177. A completed examination form is required for file in 
the office of the Surgeon General in the case of every soldier 
who completes enlistment or reenlistment by taking the oath 
(including scouts and Indians). In the case of applicants who 
do not take the oath it may be destroyed after it has served its 
purpose in the conduct of the examination. 
178. As Indian scouts are now enlisted for three years they 
will undergo the same physical examination as other enlisted 
men. The examination form will be used for this purpose, 
and, when filled up and completed, will be forwarded to the 
Surgeon General. 68 
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179. The following table is given for convenience of refer- 
ence: 
Table of Physical Proportions for Height, Weight, and Chest Measurement. 
CHEST MEASUREMENT. 
Height. 
Weight. 
At expiration. 
Mobility. 
Feet. 
Inches. 
Pounds. 
Inches. 
Inches. 
n 4 
°T5 
64 
128 
32 
2 
r; 5 
65 
130 
32 
2 
R 6 
°TS 
66 
132 
32 % 
2 
°T5 
67 
134 
33 
2 
* 8 
°T5 
68 
141 
33V4 
2% 
°TS 
69 
148 
33 % 
2% 
61* 
70 
155 
34 
2% 
5H 
71 
162 
34 % 
2% 
6 
72 
169 
34% 
3 
73 
176 
35% 
3 
180. It is not necessary that the applicant should conform 
exactly to the figures indicated above, a variation of a few 
pounds from either side of the standaYd in the minimum and 
maximum weights and of a fraction of an inch in chest meas- 
urements being permissible if the applicant is otherwise in 
good health and desirable as a recruit. The table is given to 
show what is regarded as a fair proportion, but the weight 
must be at least 125 pounds, except for cavalry, or when less 
is especially authorized by the Adjutant General. 
EXAMINATION OF CADETS AND CADET CANDIDATES. 
181. A deviation from the table of physical proportions 
may be made in the examination of candidates for admission 
to the United States Military Academy, and for members of 
the graduating class, whenever this is deemed necessary by 
the Medical Examining Board. 
182. Medical officers will be guided by the following instruc- 
tions in examining candidates for admission to the United 
States Military Academy: 
(a) Hearing must be normal in both ears. MANUAL, FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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(b) Vision, as determined by the official test types, must 
not fall below b § in either eye, and not below §§, unless it 
can be made normal by proper glasses. 
(c) Color-blindness is not a cause for rejection, but must 
be noted upon the form for physical examination, and the 
applicant so informed. 
(d) Accepted candidates, if between seventeen and eighteen 
years of age, should not fall below live feet three inches in 
height and one hundred pounds in weight; if between eight- 
een and nineteen years, five feet three and one-half inches in 
height and one hundred and five pounds in weight; if over 
nineteen, five feet four inches in height and one hundred and 
ten pounds in weight. 
(e) The weight, and chest measurement at expiration, 
should not fall materially below the following standard, 
which, however, is not to be considered as absolute, and 
should not be strictly adhered to in the case of active boys 
who are less than 18 years of age: 
Pounds. 
Chest meas- 
urement - 
at 
expiration. 
5 feet 4 inches 
118 
30 inches 
120 
5feet6inches _ _ _ 
122 
31 inches 
5 feet 7 inches . _ _ 
124 
inches 
128 
5 feet 9 inches 
132 
32 inches 
136 
142 
148 
(/) Candidates will be carefully examined, while stripped, 
by the methods prescribed in the authorized manual for the 
examination of recruits, and will be rejected for any mental 
or physical defect which would constitute a cause of rejection 
in the case of a recruit, or for any apparent feebleness of 
constitution, or cachexia. 
(g) The result of the physical examination in each case, 
whether accepted or rejected, will be recorded on the blank 
form furnished by the Adjutant General for this purpose and 
forwarded to the Surgeon General. 70 
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OUTLINE -FIGURE CARD. 
183. A record of the marks upon the person of the accepted 
recruit will be made upon an outline-figure card. The blanks 
will be furnished by the Adjutant General. 
184. A card is required for every soldier of the Regular 
Army who completes enlistment by taking the oath, except 
scouts and Indians, whether enlisting for the first time or 
not, and whether for the line or one of the staff: departments. 
The card should not be forwarded until the recruit is sworn 
in, and should then immediately, upon completioix, be sent 
direct to the Surgeon General. No letter of transmittal is 
required. 
185. The outline-figure card will be prepared and forwarded 
for enlistments made at military posts, by the medical officer 
or the civilian physician making the medical examination; 
for enlistments made at other recruiting stations, by the 
medical officer or the civilian physician, if there is one; 
otherwise, as follows : (1) When the recruit is sent direct to 
regiment, rendezvous, or post, by the medical officer who ex- 
amines the recruit upon his arrival there; (2) when, before 
joining the regiment, rendezvous, or post, the recruit is dis- 
charged, is allowed a furlough, or is assigned to duty at the 
recruiting station, by the enlisting officer. 
186. All indelible or permanent marks of whatsoever 
character upon the person of the recruit, whether peculiar 
in themselves or not, should be recorded on the cards, viz: 
Scars (including vaccination marks), moles, birthmarks and 
pigmentations, circumcisions, amputations or other losses of 
joints of fingers or toes, tattoo marks, the absence of teeth 
(designating those that are absent), and malformations or 
deviations from the normal standard of any part of the per- 
son. It is not, however, desired that the cards shall be 
encumbered with the record of trifling and valueless marks 
minute in size, when better marks are found in sufficient 
number. 
187. A careful and systematic search of the body should he 
made, front and rear, on each side of the median line, sepa- 
rately, commencing at the scalp and ending at the foot. The MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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marks found will be recorded and described as indicated in 
paragraphs 190, 191, and 192. 
188. Cards showing less than five marks (in addition to vac 
cination scars, tattooings, loss of teeth, and deformities) can 
not be relied upon in the effort to discover identity or to estab- 
lish it in suspected cases. Experience shows that as many as 
ten to fifteen marks may usually be found. 
189. If no marks be found upon the recruit, the fact should 
be stated upon both the front and back of the card; likewise, 
if marks are found upon the front and none upon the rear or 
vice versa, the entry “no marks” should be made upon the 
appropriate side of the card. 
190. The location of the mark and its characteristics, such 
as form and direction, upon the person of the recruit, should 
be indicated on the corresponding part of the figure, and a solid 
line should be drawn therefrom to the description in terms 
upon the fly leaf opposite. When this description is common 
to a number of marks it need not be repeated for each one, 
but the lines may converge to it. Care should be taken, how- 
ever, in grouping the descriptions on the card, that its legi- 
bility and clearness are not impaired; lines, for instance, should 
not cross each other when it can conveniently be avoided. 
191. The following details are called for in the description 
of marks and scars, etc., on the person of the recruit: 
(«) In the case of scars: (1) Their form or shape—rectilin 
ear, curvilinear, undulating, oval, circular, oblong, square, 
V-shaped, L-shaped, T-shaped, etc.; (2) their inclination- 
horizontal, oblique, vertical; if curved, the direction of the 
concavity; (3) their approximate size in inches; (4) their char - 
acter—recent, faint, conspicuous, purple, puckered, or any 
other noteworthy feature; (5) their cause, if known—cuts, 
boils, burns, etc. 
(b) When scars are small and numerous, a description of 
one may be given, followed by the words “and many others;” 
or the record may stand “numerous small scars.” 
(c) In the case of moles, their approximate size in fractional 
parts of an inch, and whether raised, flat, hairy, or hairless. 
When too small for ordinary measurement, however, the entry 
P. m. for pinhead mole will be sufficient. 72 
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(d) In the case of birthmarks, their approximate size, shape, 
color, and other noteworthy features should be recorded. 
(e) Tattoo marks should invariably be noted, and in their 
description words should be designated as such, and letters 
and numerals should be legibly recorded. Appropriate de- 
tails of costume, posture, relationship to other devices, etc., 
should be given in the case of tattooed representations of men 
and women—e. g., Irishman in Jcnee breeches, sivallow-tail coat 
and high hat, pipe in hatband, dancing, twirling sliillalah in 
right hand. Boy astride of spread eagle, U. S. flag in uplifted 
left hand, words “Young America” below. In the case of 
devices composed of two or more figures the component figures 
should be fully described. 
(/) When the tattooed design is indecent or obscene it is a 
cause for rejection, but the applicant should be given an oppor- 
tunity to alter the design, in which event he may, if other- 
wise qualified, be accepted. 
(g) Amputations and losses of parts of fingers and toes 
should be noted, specifying with care the particular member 
injured and how much of it is gone. 
192. The following abbreviations are authorized, and will 
be understood in the sense indicated, viz: 
B. h. in. for raised hairy mole )4 inch in diameter. 
K. s. m. % for raised smooth (hairless) mole 34 inch in diameter. 
F. li. m. (4 for flat hairy mole 34 inch in diameter. 
F. s. m. 34 for fhit smooth mole 34 inch in diameter. 
P. m. for all moles inch in diameter or less. 
L s. 1" for linear scar 1 inch long. 
0. d. s. 2" x 54" for oval depressed scar 2 by % inch. 
C. p. s. 34" d. for circular pitted scar J4 inch in diameter. 
V 1" x 34" for vaccination scar 1 by 34 inch. 
Var. for varicocele or varicose veins. 
193. (a) When the record of marks is completed, the color 
of hair and eyes should he recorded. Between the extremes 
of flax-colored and black hair all shades of brown are found. 
The scale may be given as follows: 
Flax-color. 
Light brown. 
Of red hair, as follows: 
Brick red. 
Saudy red. 
Auburn (reddish brown). 
Dark brown. 
Black. 
Of gray hair, as follows: 
Dark gray. 
Light gray, approaching white. 
Iron gray (mixed). MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
(5) In determining the color of the eyes, medical and 
recruiting officers will make use of the standard eye colors 
issued by the Surgeon General. The number of the standard 
eye color which most nearly corresponds with the eyes under 
examination will be recorded, as—brown, 1st, 2d, etc.; blue, 
7th, 8th, etc. Note should also be made if the color is not 
the same in both eyes; if there is any peculiarity of pigmen- 
tation, as the presence of black or red spots in the general 
color; and also if there is any deviation from the normal cir- 
cular form of the pupils. 
194. As the height is relied upon as a basis in comparing 
the cards of recruits with the classified descriptions of former 
soldiers, and as this measurement may to a considerable 
degree be affected by deception on the part of the subject, 
great care in ascertaining it is specially enjoined. 
195. In the lower left-hand corner of the card will be noted 
the station where it is prepared and the date of preparation. 
196. The entries on the cards will be made with durable 
black ink, and not with copying ink. 
197. Outline-figure cards are required also for soldiers dis- 
charged dishonorably or without honor. This record will be 
made from an examination of the man immediately prior to 
discharge (unless the discharge is followed by a period of con- 
finement at a military post); it will show the date and place 
of enlistment as in the case of recruit cards, and will cite the 
order for the discharge and the date upon which it is to take 
effect. When the dishonorable discharge is followed by a 
period of confinement at a military post, the card should be 
prepared about two weeks prior to the release of the prisoner; 
and in addition to the data above required, note should be made 
of the probable date of release. The card in these cases will 
immediately, upon completion, be forwarded to the Surgeon 
General. No letter of transmittal is required. 
198. Application for an artificial limb or for its commuted 
value should be made by the claimant direct to the Surgeon 
General, War Department, Washington, D. C. 
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS. 
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BLANK FORMS. 
199. The following blank forms are issued for the use of 
the Medical Department. Requisitions will always be made 
for one year’s supply, and the required number of each blank 
will be stated: 
(See A. R. 1552.) 
Form 
No. 
Title. 
, 
Invoice of funds. 
2 
Receipt for funds. 
3 
Account of funds received. 
4 
Voucher to abstract of disbursements, articles purchased, or services 
performed. 
5 
Voucher for property received by purchase. 
« 
Voucher pay roll of persons employed. 
7 
Abstract of disbursements. 
8 
Account current. 
9 
Account of sales at public auction of medical supplies. 
10 
Invoice of medical property sold at public auction. 
11 
Abstract of medical property received by purchase. 
12 
Abstract of medical property issued, sold, etc. 
Issued to medical 
13 
Abstract of medical property received from officers. 
supply depots 
14 
Return of medical property received, issued, and 
remaining on hand at medical supply depot. 
only. 
15 
Requisition for medical supplies. 
10 
Special requisition for medical supplies. 
17 
Packer’s list of medical supplies. 
18 
Invoice of medical supplies, large and small. 
1!) 
Receipt for medical supplies, large and small. 
20 
Return of medical property, with additional leaves. 
21 
Voucher to abstract of disbursements (bill for medical attendance). 
22 
Voucher to abstract of disbursements (medicines furnished on prescrip- 
tion). 
23 
Contract for medical supplies. 
24 
Bond for fulfillment of contract.’ 
25 
Report of sick and wounded, sheet 1 and sheet 2. 
26 
Transfer book. 
27 
List of patients suffering from epidemic diseases. 
28 
Special diet table. 
29 
Meteorological register. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
Form 
No. 
Title 
30 
Monthly report of physical examination of recruits. 
31 
Return of medical officers. 
32 
Return of the hospital corps. 
33 
Record of variations of temperature 
34 
Statement of the ice fund. 
35 
Statement of the hospital fund and return of durable property. 
36 
Requisition for blank forms. 
37 
Report of record books. 
38 
Application for transfer to the hospital corps. 
39 
Report of payments made on account of purchases and services. 
40 
Diagram of areas of physical signs. 
41 
Monthly sanitary report. 
42 
List of wounded 
RECORD BOOKS, ETC. 
Deaths and interments. 
Information-slip book. 
Information-slip book of deserters. 
Letter-press book. 
Medical history of post (with printed headings), No. 1. 
Medical history of post, No. 2. 
Morning-report book. 
Meteorological register. 
Order and letter book. 
Register of patients. 
Register of the hospital fund and return of durable property. 
Register ot physical examination of recruits. 
Register of the hospital corps. 
Mailing tubes. 
GENEVA CONVENTION. 
200.—The convention between the United States, Baden, 
Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Hesse, Italy, 
Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia, Wurtemberg, Sweden,Greece, 
Great Britain, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Turkey, Bavaria, Aus- 
tria, Russia, Persia, Roumania, Salvador, Montenegro, Servia, 76 
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Bolivia, Chili, Argentine Republic, Peru, and Japan; with addi 
tional articles: For the amelioration of the wounded in armies 
in the field; concluded August 22, 1864; acceded to by the 
President March 1, 1882; accession concurred in by the Senate 
March 16, 1882; proclaimed as to the original convention, but 
with reserve as to the additional articles, July 26, 1882; com- 
monly known as the Geneva Convention, is as follows: 
ORIGINAL CONVENTION. 
Article I. Ambulances and military hospitals shall be ac- 
knowledged to be neuter, and as such, shall be protected and 
respected by belligerents so long as any sick or wounded may 
be therein. 
Such neutrality shall cease if the ambulances or hospitals 
should be held by a military force. 
Art. II. Persons employed in hospitals and ambulances, com - 
prising the staff for superintendence, medical service, adminis- 
tration, transport of wounded, as well as chaplains, shall par 
ticipate in the benefit of neutrality, whilst so employed, and so 
long as there remain any wounded to bring in or to succor. 
Art. III. The persons designated in the preceding article 
may, even after occupation by the enemy, continue to fulfill 
their duties in the hospital or ambulance which they serve, or 
may withdraw in order to re join the corps to which they belong. 
Under such circumstances, when these persons shall cease 
from their functions, they shall be delivered by the occupying 
army to the outposts of the enemy. 
Art. IV. As the equipment of military hospitals remains 
subject to the laws of war, persons attached to such hospitals 
can not, in withdrawing, carry away any articles but such as 
are their private property. 
Under the same circumstances an ambulance shall, on the 
contrary, retain its equipment. 
Art. V. Inhabitants of the country who may bring help to 
the wounded shall be respected, and shall remain free. The 
generals of the belligerent powers shall make it their care to 
inform the inhabitants of the appeal addressed to their human- 
ity, and of the neutrality which will be the consequence of it. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
77 
Any wounded man entertained and taken care of in a house 
shall be considered as a protection thereto. Any inhabitant 
who shall have entertained wounded men in his house shall be 
exempted from the quartering of troops, as well as from a part 
of the contributions of war which may be imposed. 
Art. VI. Wounded or sick soldiers shall be entertained and 
taken care of, to whatever nation they may belong. 
Commanders in chief shall have the power to deliver imme- 
diately to the outposts of the enemy soldiers who have been 
wounded in an engagement, when circumstances permit this 
to be done, and with the consent of both parties. 
Those who are recognized, after their wounds are healed, as 
incapable of serving, shall be sent back to their country. 
The others may also be sent back, on condition of not again 
bearing arms during the continuance of the war. 
Evacuations, together with the persons under whose direc- 
tions they take place, shall be protected by an absolute neu- 
trality. 
Art. VII. A distinctive and uniform flag shall be adopted 
for hospitals, ambulances, and evacuations. It must, on every 
occasion, be accompanied by the national flag. An arm badge 
(brassard) shall also be allowed for individuals neutralized, 
but the delivery thereof shall be left to military authority. 
The flag and the arm badge shall bear a red cross on a white 
ground. 
Art. YIII. The details of execution of the present conven- 
tion shall be regulated by the commanders in chief of belliger- 
ent armies, according to the instructions of their respective 
governments, and in conformity with the general principles 
laid down in this convention. 
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES. 
Article I. The persons designated in Article II of the Con- 
vention shall, after the occupation by the enemy, continue to 
fulfill their duties, according to their wants, to the sick and 
wounded in the ambulance or the hospital which they serve. 
When they request to withdraw, the commander of the occu- 
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only be allowed to delay for a short time in case of military 
necessity. 
Art. II. Arrangements will have to be made by the bellig- 
erent powers to insure to the neutralized person, fallen into 
the hands of the army of the enemy, the entire enjoyment of 
his salary. 
Art. III. Under the conditions provided for in Articles I 
and IV of the Convention, the name ‘ ambulance” applies to 
field hospitals and other temporary establishments, which fol- 
low the troops on the field of battle to receive the sick and 
wounded. 
Art. IV. In conformity with the spirit of Article V of the 
Convention, and to the reservations contained in the protocol 
of 1864, it is explained that for the appointment of the charges 
relative to the quartering of troops, and of the contributions 
of war, account only shall be taken in an equitable manner of 
the charitable zeal displayed by the inhabitants. 
Art. V. In addition to Article VI of the Convention, it is 
stipulated that, with the reservation of officers whose detention 
might be important to the fate of arms and within the limits 
fixed by the second paragraph of that article, the wounded 
fallen into the hands of the enemy shall be sent back to their 
country, after they are cured, or sooner if possible, on condi- 
tion, nevertheless, of not again bearing arms during the con- 
tinuance of the war. 
[Articles concerning the Marine. ] 
Art. VI. The boats which, at their own risk and peril, dur- 
ing and after an engagement pick up the shipwrecked or 
wounded, or which having picked them up, convey them on 
board a neutral or hospital ship, shall enjoy, until the accom- 
plishment of their mission, the character of neutrality, as far 
as the circumstances of the engagement and the position of 
the ships engaged will permit. 
The appreciation of these circumstances is intrusted to the 
humanity of all the combatants. The wrecked and wounded 
thus picked up and saved must not serve again during the 
continuance of the war. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
79 
Art. VII. The religious, medical, and hospital staff of any 
captured vessel are declared neutral, and, on leaving the ship, 
may remove the articles and surgical instruments which are 
their private property. 
Art. VIII. The staff designated in the preceding article must 
continue to fulfill their functions in the captured ship, assist- 
ing in the removal of the wounded made by the victorious 
party; they will then be at liberty to return to their country, 
in conformity with the second paragraph of the first addi- 
tional artic 3. 
The stipulations of the second additional article are appli- 
cable to the pay and allowance of the staff. 
Art. IX. The military hospital ships remain under martial 
law in all that concerns their stores; they become the property 
of the captor, but the latter must not divert them from their 
special appropriation during the continuance of the war. 
Art. X. Any merchant ship, to whatever nation she may 
belong, charged exclusively with removal of sick and wounded, 
isprotectedby neutrality; but the mere fact, noted on the ship’s 
books, of the vessel having been visited by an enemy’s cruiser, 
renders the sick and wounded incapable of serving during the 
continuance of the war. The cruiser shall even have the right 
of putting on board an officer in order to accompany the con- 
voy, and thus verify the good faith of the operation. 
If the merchant ship also carries a cargo, her neutrality will 
still protect it, provided that such cargo is not of a nature to 
be confiscated by the belligerents. 
The belligerents retain the right to interdict neutralized ves- 
sels from all communication, and from any course which they 
may deem prejudicial to the secrecy of their operations. In 
urgent cases special conventions may be entered into between 
commanders in chief, in order to neutralize temporarily and in 
a special manner the vessels intended for the removal of the 
sick and wounded. 
Art. XI. Wounded or sick sailors and soldiers, when em- 
barked, to whatever nation they may belong, shall be protected 
and taken care of by their captors. 80 
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Their return to their own country is subject to the provisions 
of Article VI of the Convention, and of the additional Article V. 
Art. XII. The distinctive flag to be used with the national 
flag, in order to indicate any vessel or boat which may claim 
the benefits of neutrality, in virtue of the principles of this 
Convention, is a white flag with a red cross. The belligerents 
may exercise in this respect any mode of verification which 
they may deem necessary. 
Military hospital ships shall be distinguished by being painted 
white outside, with green strake. 
Art. XIII. The hospital ships which are equipped at the 
expense of the aid societies, recognized by the governments 
signing this Convention, and which are furnished with a com- 
mission emanating from the sovereign, who shall have given 
express authority for their being fitted out, and with a certifi- 
cate from the proper naval authority that they have been placed 
under his control during their fitting out and on their final 
departure, and that they were then appropriated solely to the 
purpose of their mission, shall be considered neutral, as well 
as the whole of their staff. They shall be recognized and pro- 
tected by the belligerents. 
They shall make themselves known by hoisting, together 
with their national flag, the white flag with a red cross. The 
distinctive mark of their staff, while performing their duties, 
shall be an armlet of the same colors. The outer painting of 
these hospital ships shall be white, with red strake. 
These ships shall bear aid and assistance to the wounded 
and wrecked belligerents, without distinction of nationality. 
They must take care not to interfere in any way with the 
movements of the combatants. During and after the battle 
they must do their duty at their own risk and peril. 
The belligerents shall have the right of controlling and visit- 
ing them; they will be at liberty to refuse their assistance, to 
order them to depart, and to detain them if the exigencies of 
the case require such a step. 
The wounded and wrecked picked up by these ships can not 
be reclaimed by either of the combatants, and they will be 
required not to serve during the continuance of the war. 81 
Art. XIV. In naval wars any strong presumption that 
either belligerent takes advantage of the benefits of neutral- 
ity, with any other view than the interest of the sick and 
wounded, gives to the other belligerent, until proof to the 
contrary, the right of suspending the Convention, as regards 
such belligerent. 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
Should this presumption become a certainty, notice may be 
given to such belligerent that the Convention is suspended 
with regard to him during the whole continuance of the 
war. 
Art. XV. The present act shall be drawn up in a single 
original copy, which shall be deposited in the archives of the 
Swiss Confederation. 
The additional articles have been acceded to by the United 
States, and signed on behalf of Great Britain, Austria, Baden, 
Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, North 
Germany, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and 
Wurtemberg, but will not acquire full force and effect as an 
international treaty until the exchange of the ratifications 
thereof between the several contracting states shall have been 
effected. 
(a) All persons connected with the Medical Department of 
the Army in the field, or referred to in Article II of the Treaty, 
shall wear habitually during the war, on the left sleeve of the 
coat, midway between the shoulder and elbow, a brassard or 
arm badge, consisting of a red cross on a white ground. 
(b) All hospitals, ambulances, and field stations of the Med- 
ical Department will habitually display the Red Cross flag, 
accompanied by the National flag. 
(c) Permits, in duplicate, for civilians to be present with 
the Army, in the service of the Medical Department, may be 
given by authority of a division commander; one copy of the 
permit will be retained by the person neutralized, and its du- 
plicate should be forwarded promptly to the Chief Surgeon of 
the Army. 
(d) Persons neutralized under this authority will report 
themselves at once to the chief surgeon of division for in- 
structions. 
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(e) The wearing of the arm brassard by any person not offi- 
cially neutralized is prohibited. 
(/) Hospital ships are required to carry the Geneva Cross 
flag at the fore whenever the National flag is flown, and their 
neutrality must at all times be preserved. No guns, ammu- 
nition, or articles contraband of war, except coal or stores 
necessary for their movement, will be placed on board, nor 
should they be used as transports for carrying dispatches, 
officers or men not sick or disabled, other than those belong- 
ing to the Medical Department. 
(:g) The War Department recognizes *for any appropriate 
cooperative purposes the American National Red Cross as the 
civil central American committee in correspondence with the 
International committee for the relief of the sick and wounded 
in war. 
201. 
SUPPLY TABLE. 
Fractions of more than 50 will be considered as an additional hundred in com- 
puting the population of a post, and supplies may be required for accordingly. 
Articles. 
Allowance for posts having 
official population of— 
100 
200 
400 
GOO 
800 
1,000 
Medicines. 
Acacia (pulvis), in 600-gm. bottles botts 
2 
•3 
4 
5 
6 
6 
Acetaniiidum, in 125-gm. bottles — botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Acidum aceticum, in 250-c. c. bottles _ botts. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Acidum arsenosum, 1-mgm. tablets (125 in bott.), 
for field use only botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Acidum boricum (pulvis), in 250-gm. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Acidum boricum, 321-mgin. tablets'(125 ill bott.), 
for field use only .. . botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Acidum carbolicum, in 250-gm. bottles _ botts 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Acidum citricum, in 250-gm. bottles. botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Acidum gallicum, in 25-gm. bottles .botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Acidum hydrochloricum, in 250-c. c. g. s. bottles.botts. 
Acidum hydrocyanicum dilutum, in 25-c. c. g. s. 
bottles botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Acidum lacticum, in 25-c. c. g. s. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Acidum nitricum, in 250-c. c. g. s. Iiottles botts. 
Acidum phosphoricum dilutum, in 250-c. c.g.s. 
bottles botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
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Articles. 
All 
100 
owar 
)ffici< 
200 
ce fc 
il po 
400 
r po 
ralat 
600 
ts having 
ion of— 
800 1,000 
Medicines—Continued. 
Acidum salicylicurn, in 250-gm. bottles. botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
4 
4 
Acidum sulphuricum, in 250-c. c. g. s. bottles botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Acidum sulphuricum aromaticuni, iu 250-c. c. 
g. s. bottles _ botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 1 
3 
Acidum tanuicum, in 25-gm. bottles _ botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Acidum tartaricum, in 250-gm. bottles botts. 
2 
2 
4 
4 
6 
6 
Aconiti tinctura, in 50-c. c. bottles botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Aconiti tinctura, 0.1-c. c. tablets (200 in bottle), botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
.'Ether, in 100-gm. tins _ _ tins 
20 
20 
30 
30 
40 
40 
,'Etheris spiritus compositus, iu 250-c. c. bottles., botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
iEtheris spiritus nitrosi, in 500-c. c. bottles botts. 
2 
3 
4 
G 
8 
10 
Alcohol, in 1-liter bottles _ _ botts 
10 
10 
24 
30 
36 
36 
Aloe (pulvis), in 25-gm. bottles __ botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Aloini pilulai comp. (200 in bottle) botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Alumen, in 250-gm. bottles _ _ botts 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
6 
Alumen, 324-mgm. tablets (150 in bottle), for 
field use only botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Ammonite aqua, 10 p. c., in 500-c. c. g. s. bottles botts 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
8 
Ammonite spiritus aromaticus, in 250-c. c. bot- 
ties . ... ..... botts 
1 
2 
4 
f) 
6 
Ammonii bromidum, in 250 gm. bottles. botts 
1 
1 
i 
2 
2 . 
2 
Ammonii carbonas, in 250-gm. bottles botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 : 
3 
Ammonii chloridi trochisci (100 in bottle) botts 
2 
3 
4 
6 
8 
10 
Ammonii chloridum, in 250-gm. bottles botts 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
8 
Amyl nitris (5-drop pearls), 12 in box boxes 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Antimonii et potassii tartras, iu 25 gm. bottles, botts 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Antipyrinum, in 125-gm. bottles botts 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
6 
Antitoxin of diphtheria* _ botts 
ApomoAphinas hydrochloras, 6-mgin. bypoder- 
mic tablets . __ tubes 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Areentii nitras, in crystals, in 25-gm. bottles. botts 
1 
1 
‘2 
2 
3 
3 
nitras fusus, in 25-gm. bottles botts 
1 
1 
i 
2 
2 
2 
Asafoetida, in 25-gm. bottles ... ..botts 
1 
1 
i 
1 
1 
1 
Aspidii oleoresina, in 50-c. c. bottles botts 
1 
1 
i 
1 
1 
1 
Atropin® sulphas, 0.65-mgm. hypodermic tab- 
lets . . tubes. 
1 
1 
i 
2 
2 
2 
Atropin® sulphas, 0.13-mgm. ophthalmic discs 
(50 inbox) . boxes 
1 
1 
i 
2 
2 
2 
Belladon® emplastrum, in 2-meter tins. .tins 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Belladon® foliorum extractum alcoholicum, 
in 25-gm. bottles _ . botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Bismuttii subgallis, in 250-gm. bottles botts 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Bismuthi subnitras, in 500-gm. bottles _ botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Buchu extractum fluidum, in 500-c. c. bottles..botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
3 
Caffein® citrata, in 25-gm. bottles . botts 
1 
l 
1 
2 
2 
2 
('amphora, in 500-gm. bottles _ . botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 : 
4 
Cannabis indie® tinctura, 0.06-c. c. tablets (100 
in bottle) . . _ botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Cantharidis emplastrum, in 1-meter tins . tins 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Cantharidis tinctura, in 100-c. c. bottles botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Capsici tinctura, iu 100-c. c. bottles botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 | 
2 
*To be purchased by the surgeon in amount sufficient for immediate use, if 
obtainable in vicinity. If not, telegraphic request to chief surgeon should be made. 
Special report ot necessity to be made at once by mail. 
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SUPPLY TABLE—Continued 
Articles. 
Allowance for posts having 
official population of— 
100 
200 
400 
600 
800 
1,000 
Medicines—Continued. 
Capsicum, 32-mgm. tablets (150 in bottle), for 
Held use only _ _ ... liotts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Cera flava, in 250-gm. cakes . _ ..cakes 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Ceratum resin®, in 250-gm. jars. _ jars. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Cerii oxalas, in 25-gm. bottles ______ botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Chloral, in 50-gm. g.s. bottles _ botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Chloroformum, in 100-gm. g. s. bottles botts 
12 
12 
24 
24 
36 
36 
Chrysarobinum, in 25-gm. bottles .. botts 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Cinchona; tinctura composita, in 500-c. c. bottles, botts. 
4 
G 
8 
10 
12 
12 
Cocaine; hydrodhloras, in 5-gm. bottles _botts 
2 
2 
4 
4 
6 
6 
Cocaines liydrochloras, in 10-mgm. hypoder- 
i 
1 
2 
2 
3 
Codeina, in 50-gm. bottles _ botts 
i 
1 
i 
2 
2 
2 
Colchiui seminis extractum fluidum, in 50-c. c. 
bottles _ _botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Collodium, in 25-c. c. bottles botts. 
2 
4 
G 
8 
10 
10 
Coniina; bromohydras, 0.65-mgm. hypodermic 
tablets _ _ _ tubes 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Copaiba, in 500-gni. bottles botts. 
2 
3 
4 
5 
5 
6 
Copaiba; piluhe comp, or tablets (100 in bottle)_botts 
4 
0 
8 
10 
12 
14 
Creosotum, in 50-gm. g. s. bottles _ botts 
2 
2 
4 
4 
G 
6 
Creta prmparata, in 250-gm. bottles botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Cupri arsenis, 0.325-mgm. tablets (200 in bottle).botts. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Cuprisulphas, in 50-gm. bottles _ _ .botts 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Digitalinura, 1-mgm, hypodermic tablets tubes 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Digitalis tinctura, in 125-c. c. bottles . .botts 
Digitalis tinctura, 0.3-c. c. tablets (200 in bottle)_botts_ 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
8 
Emplastrum (ferri) porous, iu boxes of 24 boxes. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Ergot® extractum fluidum, in 250-c. c. bottles botts 
1 
2 
3 
4 
6 
G 
Ergotinum, 130-mgm. tablets (200 in bottle) botts. 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Eucalyptol, in 50-c. c. bottles . _.botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Ferri chloridi tinctura, iu 600-c. c. g. s. bottles botts. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
# G 
Ferri et potassii tartras, in 250-gm. bottles botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Ferri et quinin® citras solubilis, in 100-gm. 
bqttles. __ _ .botts. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Ferri iodidi svrupus, iu 200 c. c. bottles _ botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Ferri pilul® composit® (200 in bottle) botts 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Ferri pyrophosphas solubilis, in lOO.gm. bottles.botts. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Ferri sulphas exsiccatus, in 100-gm. bottles botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Ferrum reductum, in 25-gm. bottles botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Gentian® tinctura composita, in 500-c. c. bottles.botts. 
2 
3 
4 
5 
G 
7 
Glycerinum, in 500-c. c. bottles _ botts. 
6 
8 
10 
12 
14 
16 
Glycyrrhiz® extractum purum (pulvis), in 250- 
gm. bottles ... botts 
2 
3 
4 
G 
8 
10 
Glycyrrhiz® mistura composita, tablets (400 in 
bottle) botts 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
Glycyrrhiz® pulvis compositus, in 250-gm. bot- 
tles. .. .. botts. 
i 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Guaiacolis carbonas, in 250-gm. bottles .. . botts 
i 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Ilamamelidis extractum fluidum, in 250-c. c. 
bottles _ _ . . botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Hydrargyri chloridum corrosivum, in 100-gm. 
bottles. . . . .. _ botts 
1 
1 
1 
l 
1 
1 
Ilydrargyri chloridum mite, in 100-gm. bottles_botts_ 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
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85 
Articles. 
Allowance for posts having 
official population of— 
100 
200 
400 
GOO 
800 
1,000 
Medicines—Continued. 
Hydrargyri chloridum mite cum sodii bicarb., 
tablets (200 in bottle) botts _ 
2 
3 
4 
G 
8 
Hydrargyri iodidum flavum, 10-mgm. tablets 
(200 in bottle) _ _ botts 
2 
3 
4 
5 
G 
8 
Hydrargyri massa, in 100-gm. jars _ jars 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
_ 3 
Hydrargyri massa, 324-mgm. tablets (125 in 
bottle) for field use only) - .botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Hydrargyri nitratis unguentum, in 50-gm. jars jars_ 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Hydrargyri oleatum, 10 per cent, in 500-gm. 
w.m. bottles _ . _ - botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Hydrargyri oxidum flavum, in 25-gm. bottles botts 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Hydrargyri unguentum, in 500-gm. jars _ jars 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Hydrargyrum cum creta, in 100-gm. bottles bolts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Hydrastisextractumfluidum, in 250-c. c. bottles, botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Hydrogenii dioxidi aqua* _ boxes 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Ilyoscinae hydrobromas, 0.65-mgm. hypodermic 
tablets _ . __ tubes 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Ilyoscyami extractum alcoholicum, in 25-gm. 
w. m. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Ilyoscyami pilulte composite (200 in bottle) botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Ichtbyolum, in 25-gm. bottles . botts. 
1 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Iodoformum, in 100-gm. bottles _ _ botts 
2 
3 
4 
G 
8 
10 
Iodum, in 50-gm. g. s. bottles _ botts 
Ipecacuanha, 65 mgm. tablets (200 in bottle), 
for field use only botts 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
1 
i 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Ipecacuanha (pulvis), in 100-gm. bottles botts. 
1 
i 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Ipecacuanha; et opii pulvis, in 250-grrt. bottles.-botts. 
1 
i 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Ipecacuanha; et opii pulvis, 324-mgm. tablets 
(200 in bottle) _ botts 
1 
i 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Ipecacuanha; extractum fluidum, in 250-c. c. 
bottles _ _ _ botts 
1 
i 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Linimentum rubefaciens, tablets (50 in bottle), 
for field use only _ botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Linum, in 2-kilo, tins . tins 
Linum (pulvis), in 4-kilo, tins _ tins 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
4 
G 
8 
10 
12 
14 
Lithii carbonas, in 25-gm. bottles _ botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Lycopodium, in 50-gm. bottles _ _ botts 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Magnesii carbonas, in 100-gm papers papers 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
12 
Muguesii sulphas, in 4-kiln tins tins 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Menthol, in 50-gm. bottles. _ _ botts 
Morpliinae sulphas, in 10-gm. bottles _ botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
2 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
Morph inse sulphas, 8-mgm. hypodermic tablets.tubes. 
5 
10 
15 
20 
26 
30 
Morphinae sulphas, 8-mgm. tablets (100 in bot- 
tle). .. .... botts 
2 
4 
0 
8 
10 
12 
Myrrhae tinctura, in 250-c. c. bottles . botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Nitroglycerinum, 0.65-mgm. hypodermic tab- 
lets. .tubes 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Nucis vomica; extractum, in 25-gm. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Oleum carvophvlli, in 25-c c, bottles botts 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Oleum gaultherise, in 100-c. c. bottles botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Oleum gossypii seminis, in 1-liter bottles . botts 
12 
24 
30 
48 
60 
72 
Oleum menthae piperitae, in 100-c. c. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
*Eacli liox contains all materials necessary to make three 
liters of a three per 
cent or teu volumes solution, 
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MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
SUPPLY TABLE—Continued. 
Allowance for posts having 
Articles. 
official population of— 
100 
200 
400 
600 
800 
1,000 
Medicines—Continued. 
Oleum morrhu®, in 500-c. c. bottles botts 
G 
8 
10 
12 
14 
1G 
Oleum ricini, in 1-liter bottles _ _ .botts. 
5 
10 
15 
20 
25 
30 
Oleum santali, in 100-c. c. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Oleum terebinthin®, in 1-liter bottles botts 
2 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
Oleum theobromatis, in 250-gm. tins tins 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Oleum tiglii, in 25-c. c. bottles botts 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Oleum tiglii, 0.006-c. c. tablets (100 in bottle), 
for field use only botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Opii pilul® (or tablets), 65-mgm. (200inbuttle).botts_ 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Opii tinctura, in 500-c. c. bottles. _ botts 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Opii tinctura camphorata, in 500-c. c. bottles botts. 
Opii tinctura camphorata, 0.4-c. c. tablets (200 
in bottle) . _ botts 
4 
8 
12 
1G 
20 
24 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Opium (pulvis), in 100-gm. bottles _ . botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Pepsinum, in 50-gm. bottles botts 
2 
3 
4 
G 
8 
10 
Petrolatum liquidum, in 500-gm. bottles botts. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Petrolatum spissum, 48.8 C., in 500-gm. tins tins. 
4 
6 
8 
12 
1G 
20 
Phenacetinum, in 125-gm. bottles. botts 
2 
2 
4 
4 
G 
G 
Physostigmatis tinctura, 0.06-c. c. tablets (100 
in bottle) _ _ botts 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Physostigmin® sulphas, 1-mgm. hypodermic 
tablets . .tubes 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Physostigmin® sulphas, 0.0325-mgm. ophthalmic 
discs (50 in box) _ box 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Pilocarpi extractum fluidum, in 250-c. c. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Pilul;o camphoric et opii (or tablets), (200 in 
2 
3 
4 
5 
G 
• 
7 
Pilulie carminativas (200 in bottle) botts 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Pilul® cathartic® coroposit® (or tablets), (200 
in bottle) .botts 
3 
4 
G 
8 
10 
12 
Plumbi acetas, in 250-gm. bottles botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Plumbi acetas, 130-mgm. tablets (100 in bottle), 
for field use only _ botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Podophylli resina, in 25.gm. bottles . botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Podophylli resina, 16-mgm. tablets (100 in bot- 
tle), for field use only ._ botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Potassa, in 25-gm. bottles _ botts 
2 
2 
2 
4 
4 
1 
Potassii acetas,in 500-gm. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Potassii arsenitis liquor, in 250-c. c. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Potassii bicarbonas, in 500-gm. bottles botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
a 
Potassii bromiduni, in 500-gm. bottles .botts. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Potassii cliloras, in 500-gm. bottles botts 
2 
3 
4 
5 
G 
7 
Potassii cliloras, 324-mgm. tablets(200 in bottle), 
for field use only . botts 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
Potassii et sodii tartras (pulvis), in 500-gm. 
bottles. _ _ _ . botts 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
14 
Potassii iodidum, in 500-gm. bottles botts 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Potassii iodidum, 324-mgm. tablets (200 in bot- 
tle), for field use only __ botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Potassii permanganas, in 50-gm. bottles .botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Pruni Virginian® extractum fluidum, in 500-c. 
c. bottles _ _ _ botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Quinin® hydrochloras, 32-mgm. hypodermic 
tablets _ tubes 
2 
2 
i 3 
3 
4 
4 87 
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200 
400 
600 
800 
1,000 
Medicines—Continued. 
Quininse sulphas, in 25-gm. bottles botts 
12 
18 
24 
32 
48 
60 
Quinine; sulphas, 200-mgm. tablets (500 in 
bottle) botts 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
14 
Itbamni purshianse extractum fluid uni, in 500- 
c. c. bottles _ botts_ 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Khei extractum fluidum, in 250-c. c. bottles _ botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
ltbeum (pulvis), in 50-gm. bottles _ botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Saccharum lactis (pulvis), in 100-gm. bottles botts.. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Salol, 324-mgm. tablets (125 in bottle) _ botts 
Saloplien, in 50-gm. bottles _ . botts 
2 
3 
4 
5 
G 
6 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Santoninum, 32-mgm. tablets (50 in bottle) botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Sc ilia; syrupus, in 500-e. c. bottles _ botts 
4 
8 
12 
If. 
20 
24 
Sinapis emplastrum, in 4-meter tins tins 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Sinapis nigra (pulvis), in 500-gm. tins _ tins 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
14 
Sodii bicarbonas, in 500-gm. bottles botts 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
14 
Sodii bicarbonas, 324-mgm. tablets (200 in bot- 
tle), for field use only botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Sodii bicarb; et mention pip. (tablets), (250 in 
bottle) _ . botts 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
G 
Sodii boras (pulvis), in 500-gm. bottles botts 
1 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Sodii bromidum, in 250-gm. bottles _ botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Sodii hyposulphis, in 250-gm. bottles botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Sodii phospbas, in 100-gm. bottles _ _botts 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Sodii salicylas, in 500 gin. bottles botts 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
Sodiisalicylas, 324-mgm. tablets (200 in bottle).botts_ 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
8 
Strophanthi tinctura, in 100-c. c. bottles botts_ 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Strychnin® sulphas, 1-mgm. tablets (500 in 
bottle) __ .. _ botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Sulplional, 324-mgm. tablets (200 in bottle) botts. 
2 
2 
4 
4 
6 
6 
Sulphur lotum, in 250-gm. bottles botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Terebenum, in 250-c. c. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Thymol, in 25-gm. bottles botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Tolptanum balsamum, in 250-gm. tins . tins 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Valerian® extractum fluidum, in 250-c.c. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Veratri viridis tinctura, in 100-c. c. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Zinci oxidum, in 250-gm. bottles botts. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Zinci sulphas, in 500-gm. bottles botts. 
Zinci sulphas, 324-mgm. tablets (100 in bottle), 
for field use only . botts. 
1 
1 
1 
o 
2 
2 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Zingiberis extractum fluidum, in 250-c.c.bottles.botts. 
2 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
202. Antiseptics and Disinfectants. 
Acid, carbolic, crude, in 1-kilo, bottles botts. 
10 
15 
20 
25 
30 
35 
Antiseptic tablets (200 in bottle) .botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Iron sulphate, commercial, in 10-kilo, boxes..boxes. 
5 
10 
20 
30 
40 
50 
Lime, chloride, in 500-gm. w. m. bottles botts. 
10 
15 
20 
25 
30 
35 
Mercury, corrosive chloride, in 500-gm. bottles.botts. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Soda, chlorinated solution (0 per cent available 
chlorine), in 1-liter bottles botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Sulphur, in roll _ _ kilos 
10 
15 
20 
25 
30 
35 
Tricresol,* in 1-kilo bottles _ . botts 
2 
3 
5 
6 
7 
8 
* Tricresol will be issued in lieu of crude carbolic acid if desired. 88 
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200 
400 
600 
800 
1,000 
203. Hospital Stores. 
Beef extract, in 100-gm. tins or jars 
tins 
10 
15 
20 
25 
30 
35 
Brandy, in 1-liter bottles 
bottfL 
2 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
Soap, castile or its equivalent 
kilos 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
Soap, common 
5 
8 
10 
12 
14 
16 
Sugar, white, in 6-kilo tins 
tins 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Whisky, in 1-liter bottles 
6 
8 
12 
16 
20 
24 
204. Microscopical Accessories. 
Agar-agar, in 500-gm. packages 
pkgs. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Alcohol, absolute, in 250-c. c. g. s. bottles _ 
botts. 
2 
2 
2 
4 
4 
4 
Aniline oil, in 125-c. c. bottles 
botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Balsam bottle _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Bismarck brown, in 4-gm. bottles - _ 
botts 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Canada balsam, in 30-c. c. bottles 
botts 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Carmine, in 15-g. m. bottles 
_ .botts. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Eosin, in 15-gm. bottles 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Fuchsin, in 15-gm. bottles 
botts 
1 
1 
1 
l 
1 
1 
Gelatin, in 60-gm. packages 
.pkgs 
10 
10 
10 
20- 
20 
20 
Gentian violet, in 15-gm. bottles. 
_ botts 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Glass covers, 16 or 19 mm. square 
gms. 
30 
30 
30 
30 
30 
30 
Glass slides, 25 x 75 mm. . 
doz 
4 
4 
4 
8 
8 
8 
Haunatoxylon, in 8-gm. bottles 
botts 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Methylene blue, in 15-gm. bottles 
botts 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Oil of cedar, in 30-c. c. bottles 
botts 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Peptone, in 250-gm. w. m. bottles 
botts. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Paraffin, in 250-gm. cakes 
cakes 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Xylenum, in 25(ke. c. bottles 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
205. Stationery. 
Baskets, letter - _ _ 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Baskets, waste-paper 
no 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Blank books, cap, 4-quire _ 
no 
4 
4 
4 
6 
6 
6 
Blank books, 8-rno., 4-qnire 
_no. 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Blotters, hand _ _ 
.no 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Cups, sponge _ _ 
no 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Elastic bands, assorted 
. gross 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
Envelopes, official, large 
no 
100 
100 
100 
150 
150 
150 
Envelopes, official, letter 
no 
400 
400 
500 
500 
600 
606 
Envelopes, official, note 
_no 
100 
100 
100 
150 
200 
200 
Erasers, steel . 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
India rubber 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Ink, writing, in 1-liter bottles . 
botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Ink, carmine, in 30-c. c. bottles 
botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Inkstands _ _ 
3 
3 
3 
4 
4 
4 
Mucilage 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
Pads, prescription _ 
no 
18 
24 
36 
36 
48 
48 
Pads, letter _ __ 
6 
8 
10 
12 
14 
16 
Paper, blotting 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Paper cutters __ 
no 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Paper fasteners 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Paper weights _ 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Paper, writing, legal cap.. _ ' 
6 
6 
. 8 
8 
10 
10 
Paper, writing, letter ... 
16 
16 
18 
18 
24 
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All 
0 
100 
owai 
fficia 
200 
ce fo 
1 poj 
400 
r po 
>ulat 
600 
Bts b 
ion o 
800 
aving 
f— 
1,000 
Stationery—Continued. 
Paper, writing, letter, typewriter : .... 
—Qrs_ 
12 
16 
18 
20 
24 
24 
Paper, writing, note 
qrs_ 
6 
6 
6 
12 
12 
12 
Pencils, lead _. _ - 
no 
18 
18 
24 
24 
36 
36 
Penholders 
no_ 
8 
8 
10 
10 
12 
12 
Penracks _ _ _ 
no 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
Pens, steel* _ 
no 
96 
90 
144 
144 
192 
192 
no 
Eulers _ _______ 
no 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Stamp, penalty, rubber 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Typewriter __ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
206. Surgical Instruments, Appliances, 
and 
Dressings. 
Apparatus, compressed air 
_ no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Apparatus, electric X 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Apparatus, restraint . 
_ _no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Apparatus, steam sterilizing 
_no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Atomizers, hand _ 
_ no 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Bags, rubber, hot-water _ _ .. _ 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Hays, rubber, ice, for head 
no_ 
1 
l 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Bandages, roller, assorted, in boxes of 8 dozen. 
boxes 
3 
4 
5 
7 
9 
12 
Bandages, rubber (Martin’s), 4 meters by 63 nm.no. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Bandages, suspensory 
no 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
10 
Bandage winder „ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Boxes, fracture, folding 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Brush holders for larynx 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Case, aspirating 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Case, capital operating _ 
_ no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Case, dental, small 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
l 
1 
Case, emergency _ . 
no 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Case, e//e anr2 ear _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Case, field operating 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Case, forceps, hre.mosd.atic, 12 in set 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Case, genito-urethral 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Case, qenito-urinari/ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Case, minor operating 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Case, obstetrical and gynecological 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Case, pocket _ _ 
no 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
3 
Case, post-mortem _ ._ . 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Case, stomach pump 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Case, JriaZ lenses _ 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Catheter box 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Cotton, styptic, in 30-gm. packages 
.pkgs 
1 
i 
i 
i 
2 
2 
Cotton bats _ _ 
kilos 
2 
3 
4 
6 
8 
9 
* Falcon, stub, large fine, and small fine will be issued as required. 
f Issued on request to Surgeon General by information slip. 
X Sulphuric acid, sulphate of copper, and 
bichromate of potash in 500-gram 
bottles, and metallic mercury in 125-gram bottles, will be issued 
as required for 
battery use. 
8535 12 90 
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200 
400 
COO 
800 
1,000 
Surgical Instruments, Appliances, and 
Dressings—Continued. 
24 
48 
First-aid packets 
12 
18 
36 
6(1 
Forceps, needle _ — _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Gauze, plain _ 
meters 
40 
60 
80 
120 
160 
200 
In flat or, Politzer's 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
‘1 
Inhaler and vaporizer _ _ _ — 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Inhaler, ether _ - 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Lavage lubes _ — no_ 
Ligatures, catgut, sterilized, in alcohol, 3 sizes, 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
1 meter each, in bottles 
botts 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
5 
Ligature silk _ . _ — _ 
gms 
15 
15 
30 
30 
45 
45 
Ligature, silkworm gut _ _ 
coils 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
5 
5 
10 
10 
15 
15 
Needles, common, assorted _ _ 
papers 
i 
1 
1 
2 
2 
• 2 
Needles, surgical (Ilagedorn’s), 20 in set 
__ sets 
i 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Oakum or its equivalent 
kilos 
5 
8 
10 
12 
15 
20 
Paper, dressing, oiled, in 24-meter rolls 
rolls- 
1 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
Pins, assorted _ ... — 
papers 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
15 
Pins, safety, 3 sizes _ _ 
_ .dozen 
3 
3 
6 
6 
8 
10 
Plaster, adhesive, 30cm, wide, in 5-meter rolls_meters_ 
20 
25 
30 
40 
60 
60 
Plaster, isinglass, in 1-meter rolls 
meters- 
2 
2 
4 
4 
6 
G 
Plaster of paris, in 2-kilo tins 
kilos 
4 
4 
6 
10 
12 
14 
1 
Pouches, orderly _ _ _ 
.no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Probangs _.. - 
4 
4 
6 
6 
10 
10 
4 
4 
6 
G 
8 
8 
Scarificator 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Silk, gray, for shades _ - - 
meters 
x4 
V\ 
5 
K 
K 
1 
1 
Silk, oiled, in 5-meter rolls _ 
5 
10 
10 
15 
16 
Speculum, rectal 
no 
1 
i 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Splints, felt for . .. 
pieces 
4 
6 
8 
8- 
10 
10 
Sponge holders for throat 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Sponges, chloroform 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Sponges, small, in strings of 50 
no 
50 
50 
50 
100 
100 
100 
Sprinklers, iodoform, It. r 
1 
l 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Surgical pump 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Syringes, hypodermic_ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
Syringes, rubber, self-injecting, bulb . . - 
no 
4 
4 
4 
6 
6 
6 
Syringes, rubber, self-injecting, fountain 
no. 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Tape, cotton 
pieces 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
6 
Tents, laminaria or tupelo 
Thermo-cautery (Poquelin's)* - _ 
no 
6 
6 
12 
12 
18 
18 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Thermometers, clinical. 
.no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
Thread, cotton, assorted 
spools 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Thread, linen, unbleached 
-gms- 
30 
30 
30 
60 
60 
60 
Tongue depressors 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Tourniquet, and bandage, rubber . 
_ _ no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Tourniquets, field __ _ 
no 
4 
8 
16 
24 
32 
40 
Trusses, single _ _ 
_ no 
2 
3 
4 
G 
6 
8 
Trusses, double 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Tubes, drainage, Nos. 1, 2, and 3, of each 
—meters. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Wire, suture, silver, in loops 
_ loops 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
* Benzine, of a specific gravity not greater than 0.724, 
in 1-liter bottles, will be 
issued as required for use with this cautery. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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100 
owai 
flic if 
200 
ice f 
il po 
400 
)r po 
)ulai 
600 
sts having 
ion of— 
800 1,000 
207. Furniture, Bedding, and Clothing. 
Basin, wash, delf, for office 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Basins, wash, hand, agate ware _ 
0 
G 
G 
10 
10 
10 
Bath tubs _ _ _ _ 
1 
l 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Bed cradles _ 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Beds, invalid_ _ __ _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Bedsteads, with icoven-wire mattresses 
no 
12 
12 
18 
18 
30 
30 
___ 1 _ J 
40 
50 
70 
100 
100 
100 
Bookcases _ _ . 
no 
i 
i 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Cabinet for blanks 
no 
i 
i 
1 
1 
1 
1 
(1 hairs, arm 
no 
10 
12 
15 
20 
25 
30 
Chairs, common 
no 
10 
12 
15 
20 
25 
30 
Chairs, invalid, rolling 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Chairs, office, revolving _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Chairs, rocking 
no 
3 
4 
5 
6 
6 
C locks f 
no 
3 
3 
3 
4 
4 
4 
(Hose stools _ 
~no 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
4 
Commodes, earth closet .. 
no 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Cuspidors 
no 
0 
6 
10 
10 
15 
15 
Desks office 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Dish, soa2), with cover, for office 
no_ 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Lamps, hand 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Lamps, stand _ 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Looking-glasses 
_ no 
4 
4 
G 
6 
8 
8 
Mats, door, man.Ua 
no 
4 
4 
0 
G 
8 
8 
Mats, door, woven wire 
3 
3 
4 
4 
5 
8 
Mattress covers _ 
G 
6 
10 
10 
15 
15 
Mattresses, hair 
no 
10 
12 
18 
24 
30 
40 
Oilcloth for table 
..meters 
0 
G 
G 
12 
12 
12 
Pillows, feather 
6 
6 
6 
12 
12 
12 
Pillows, hair 
no 
15 
24 
30 
40 
50 
GO 
Pillowcases, cotton _ 
no 
40 
10 
60 
80 
100 
130 
Pilcher, del f, for office 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Pitcher, ice, silver-plated. 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Quilts, colored 
12 
12 
18 
24 
30 
36 
Quilts, white 
12 
12 
18 
24 
30 
36 
Refrigerators _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Safe, iron 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Screens, bed, folding, frames for 
no 
2 
2 
2 
4 
4 
4 
♦Issued in the proportion of one case to ten Cray b 
ankets. 
f Clocks will be issued on the basis of one 
for each ward, 
one for kitchen, and one 
for dispensary. 92 
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SUPPLY TABLE—Continued. 
Allowance for posts having 
Articles. 
official population of— 
100 
200 
400 
600 
800 
1,000 
Furniture, Bedding, and Clothing 
—Continued. 
Screens, wire netting for, as required 
Sheets, cotton _ __ 
- - no 
40 
50 
75 
100 
125 
150 
Shirts, cotton _ _ 
20 
20 
40 
40 
50 
60 
SI ip pern _ _ 
12 
12 
18 
18 
21 
36 
15 
15 
20 
25 
Tables, bedside _ . 
no 
12 
12 
18 
18 
30 
30 
Tables, dining, extension 
no. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Towels, hand 
. doz 
4 
8 
12 
15 
18 
20 
Towels, roller 
1 
l 
2 
3 
4 
5 
Window curtains, as required , 
__ _ DO. 
208. Miscellaneous. 
Bacteriological set, as per list 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Bath bricks _ _ _ 
2 
2 
4 
4 
6 
6 
Bedpans, del/ or agate ware 
DO 
2 
3 
4 
5 
5 
6 
llell, call _____ 
1 
1 
1 
i 
1 
1 
Blowers, for insect powder _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
i 
2 
2 
Boiler, tin . 
1 
1 
1 
i 
1 
1 
Boilers, double, for cooking 
no 
1 
1 
1 
i 
2 
l 
Bowl, chopping 
no 
1 
1 
1 
i 
1 
1 
Bowls, soup, delf 
no 
18 
24 
36 
48 
60 
72 
Bowls, sugar, with lid 
no 
2 
2 
4 
4 
6 
6 
Boxes, ointment, impervious. 
_doz_ 
12 
15 
20 
25 
30 
35 
Boxes, pill _ 
20 
25 
30 
40 
50 
60 
Boxes, powder. 
doz 
18 
18 
24 
30 
36 
48 
Brooms 
no 
12 
18 
24 
36 
48 
48 
Brooms, whisk 
no 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Brushes, dust 
no 
2 
2 
4 
4 
6 
6 
Brushes, flesh, rubber _ 
1 
i 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Brushes, nail 
no 
1 
i 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Brushes, nail, holder for 
no 
1 
i 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Brushes, scrubbing 
12 
12 
18 
18 
24 
24 
Brushes, stove-blacking 
_ _ no 
3 
3 
3 
4 
4 
4 
Buckets, covered, 7-liter _ 
2 
2 
4 
4 
5 
c 
Buckets, fiber or ivood _ _ 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
15 
Buckets, lire, galvanized iron 
12 
12 
18 
18 
24 
24 
Burner, Bunsen's* .. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Can openers 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Candlesticks 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Cans, milk, 9-liter 
_ no 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
3 
Capsules, gelatin, 100 in box, 4 sizes 
boxes. 
10 
12 
16 
20 
24 
30 
Casters __ __ _ 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Chamois skins 
2 
2 
4 
Charts, anatomical, in case 
i 
i 
1 
1 
i 
1 
Chemical set, as per list 
1 
1 
1 
Chest, commode, as required 
Chest, food, as required 
Chest, medical, as required 
Chest, mess, as required 
Chest, surgical, as required 
* Will not be issued to posts that have 
no g 
as si 
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SUPPLY TA ISLE—Continued. 
Articles. 
Allowance for posts having 
official population of— 
100 
200 
400 
600 
800 
1,000 
Miscellaneous—Continued. 
Cleaver 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Clolhes baskets or bags _ __ 
2 
2 
2 
3 
4 
l 
60 
GO 
GO 
90 
90 
90 
1 
i 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Cork borers, set of 6- 
.set 
1 
i 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Cork extractor 
1 
i 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Cork presser _ _ 
1 
i 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Corks, assorted, in bags ot 24 dozen. 
_ doz 
48 
48 
9G 
9G 
144 
144 
Corks, large (No. 10) 
doz 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Corkscrews _ 
no. 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Crutches . - _ 
pairs 
4 
4 
6 
G 
8 
8 
Crutches, rubber tips for 
no 
8 
8 
12 
12 
16 
16 
Cups _ 
18 
24 
30 
48 
60 
72 
Cups, feeding . . 
no 
2 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
Cups, spit 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
15 
Cushions, rubber, small _ _ 
no. 
2 
2 
2 
a 
3 
3 
Cushions, rubber, with open center 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Cutting pliers, for fixed bandages . 
no_ 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Dippers 
no 
3 
3 
4 
4 
5 
5 
Dish covers, wire netting, assorted _ _ 
no 
6 
G 
9 
9 
12 
12 
Dishes, meat, assorted 
no 
0 
0 
8 
8 
12 
12 
Dishes, vegetable, with covers 
no 
4 
4 
G 
8 
10 
12 
Dispensing set 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Dispensing set, labels for, glass 
set. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Dusters, feather, long handle _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Dusters, feather, short handle 
_no_ 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Egg-beater .... 
1 
i 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Envelopes for tablets, 5x0 cm 
doz 
20 
25 
30 
35 
40 
50 
Eye shades - . _ 
no 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Fans ... . 
12 
12 
18 
18 
24 
24 
Fire extinguishers (force pump) _ _ . 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Flasks, 500-c. c 
no. 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Flasks,'1,000-c. c 
no 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Forks, carving — 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Forks, flesh ... 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Forks, table, silver-plated .. 
no 
24 
36 
48 
56 
72 
72 
Funnels, glass, 250 c. c., 500 c. c., and 1 liter 
110_ 
3 
3 
3 
6 
6 
6 
Glue, liquid, in 250-c. c. cans 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Grater, large 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Graters, small 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Gravy boats 
no 
2 
2 
4 
4 
5 
G 
Gridirons 
.no 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Grindstone, complete, %5-crnkitchen _ _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Hand grenades _ _ 
12 
1 
18 
1 
24 
36 
48 
48 
Hone _ _ _ .... 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Hose, canvas, 2.5-cm., in 1,5-meter lengths 
meters. 
30 
30 
30 
60 
60 
60 
Hose, nozzles, plain and spray. . ._ 
Hose, reel cart for 
no 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Insect powder, in 500-gm. tins 
tins 
2 
2 
4 
4 
6 
6 
Kettles, tea 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 94 
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SUPPLY TABLE—Continued. 
Allowance for posts having 
Articles. 
official population of— 
100 
200 
400 
600 
800 
1,000 
Miscellaneous—Continued. 
Knives, bread ... 
1 
1 
1 1 
2 
2 
2 
Knives, butcher's 
no 
1 
1 
1 1 
2 
2 
2 
Knives, carving 
_no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Knives, chopping 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Knives, table, silver-plated* 
no 
24 
li" 
48 
56 
72 
72 
Labels for vials _ 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
Ladder, step .. 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Ladles_ 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Lamps, spirit, glass 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Lanterns 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Lawn mower 
_no 
1 
1 
i 
1 
1 
1 
Litters .. 
no 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
5 
Litter slings 
- no 
3 
4 
6 
6 
8 
10 
Lye, concentrated, in 600-gm. tins 
tins 
r> 
8 
10 
12 
14 
16 
Measures, 500 c. c. to 4 liter 
set 
l 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Measures, graduated, glass, 100-c. c 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Measures, graduated, glass, 250-c. c 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Measures, graduated, glass, 500-c. c 
no 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
3 
Meat cutter _ _ 
1 
1 
i 
1 
1 
1 
Medicine droppers 
_ no 
12 
12 
24 
24 
36 
48 
Medicine glasses _ _ 
no 
2 
2 
3 
4 
o 
6 
Microscope _ _ 
no 
1 
i 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Mills, coffee 
no 
1 
i 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Mop handles- ______ 
no 
4 
6 
8 
8 
10 
10 
Mortar and pestle, glass, 10-cm _ 
_no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Mortar and pestle, Wedgwood, S-cm 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Mortars and pestles, Wedgwood, 20-em 
no 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Mortars and pestles, Wedgwood, 30-ctn 
_nc 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Mouse traps 
no 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
i 
1 
Naphthalin, in 5-kilo, boxes 
kilos 
5 
5 
5 
5 
5 
5 
Needle, sailmaker’s 
_ _no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
i 
1 
Needle, upholsterer's 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
i 
1 
Oil can, with pump, 22-liter 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
i 
1 
Ophthalmoscope 
no 
1 
l 
1 
1 
i 
1 
Pails, milk, with strainer _ 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Pans, dish _ _ 
_ no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Pans, dust, 
no 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Pans, frying 
no 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Pans, milk _ _ _ _ 
6 
6 
8 
8 
10 
10 
* Knives, forks, and spoons, silver-plated, 
when so much worn as 
to 
>e unfit for 
table use, will be dropped as “ silver-plated ’ 
and taken up as ‘ 
‘common. 
f State kind of lamp for which chimneys and wicks are desired. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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SUPPLY TABLE—Continued, 
Articles. 
Allowance for posts having 
official population of— 
100 
200 
400 
600 
800 
1,000 
Miscellaneous—Continued. 
Pans, muffin 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Pans, sauce - _ _ 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Paper, filtering, round, 25-cm _ 
— pkgs- 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
5 
Paper, litmus, blue and red, of each 
sheets 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Paper, tarred, in 30-meter rolls- 
.-rolls 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Paper, toilet - 
—pkgs_ 
20 
30 
40 
60 
80 
100 
Paper, urinary test, assorted 
—pkgs- 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Paper, wrapping, blue and white, of each 
qrs 
2 
4 
6 
8 
10 
12 
Paper, wrapping, brown 
qrs 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Pencils, hair, 1 dozen in vial_ 
doz 
2 
3 
4 
4 
5 
6 
Percolators, glass _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Pickle dishes - _ 
no 
2 
2 
4 
4 
5 
6 
Pill machine _ _ 
no 
1. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Pill t ile, 1% to 25 cm 
_no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Pipettes, graduated, 5-c. c 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Pitchers, delf, 500-c. c _ 
no_ 
2 
4 
4 
6 
8 
10 
Pitchers, delf, 1-liter _ _ 
no 
2 
4 
4 
6 
6 
8 
Pitchers, sirup, glass 
Plates, dinner 
no 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
no 
18 
24 
36 
48 
60 
72 
Potato masher _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Pots, chamber _ - _ 
no 
2 
2 
4 
4 
6 
6 
Pots, coffee, agate ware or tin 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Pots, tea, agate u-are or tin _ _ 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
Pots, watering _ _ 
_ no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Prescription file _ 
- no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Pus basins 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Razor _ _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Razor strop _ . 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
lielort stand 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Rolling-pin 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Saltcellars, glass 
8 
8 
10 
10 
12 
15 
Sapolio .. 
3 
4 
5 
7 
10 
12 
Saucers ... _ 
_ _ no 
18 
24 
36 
48 
60 
72 
Saw, butcher's _ 
1 
l 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Scales and weights, apothecary's 
no 
,1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Seales and weights, balance, in glass case 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Scales and weights, grocer's 
no 
1 
l 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Scales and weights, platform _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Scoops . _ 
no 
1 
2 
1 
2 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Settees for porch or hall 
no 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Shaving brush _ _ _ 
110- 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Shears _ 
no 
2 
2 
2 
% 
2 
2 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Sie res, flour _ _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Skeleton, in cabinet _ _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
I 
1 
1 
Skimmers 
no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Spatulas, 15-cm _ 
no 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Spatulas, 7-cm 
no 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Sponges, bath, large 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
4 
4 
Spoons, basting, agate ware or tinned iron 
no 
2 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Spoons, table, silver-plated 
no_ 
18 
24 
36 
48 
56 
72 96 
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Allowance for posts having 
Articles. 
official population of— 
100 
200 
400 
600 
800 
1,000 
Miscellaneous—Continued. 
Spoons, lea, silver-plated _ _ 
18 
24 
36 
48 
56 
72 
Stamp, with outfit, for marking hospital clothing 
_ no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Steels 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Stethoscope _ — 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
i 
Stethoscope, double 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
i 
Stove, coal oil, if required 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
i 
Stove blacking _ _ 
papers- 
6 
10 
10 
20 
20 
25 
Suppository mold _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Syringes, penis, glass, in case 
_no 
30 
42 
60 
72 
96 
96 
Tablet machine, with 200 and S2U mgm. dies 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
<■/ 
2 
9. 
2 
2 
Tape measures, linen, 1-meter 
no 
1 
1 
i 
2 
2 
2 
12 
12 
18 
18 
24 
24 
1 
1 
i 
1 
1 
1 
Thermometers 
-110 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Trays, antiseptic _ _ _ _ _ 
-DO 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Trays, butler's_ _ 
no 
.2 
2 
4 
4 
6 
8 
Trays, bed, with legs 
no 
2 
2 
4 
6 
8 
8 
Trimmer, lamp - _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Trowel, (jarden _ 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Tubing, glass, assorted _ 
kilos 
X 
Vi 
X 
1 
1 
1 
Tubing, rubber _ _ _ 
meters- 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
Tumblers, glass 
-110 
24 
3fi 
36 
50 
60 
84 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
Twine boxes _ _ _ _ 
no 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Urinals, delf or agate ware 
__ no 
4 
4 
6 
6 
8 
8 
Urinometers _ .. _ 
Vials, 50 in box, two 180-c. c., twelve 120-c. c. 
eighteen 60-c. c., twelve 30-c. c., six 15-c. c_ 
__ no 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
_boxes_ 
10 
15 
20 
25 
30 
35 
Vials, 4-c. c 
-dozen 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
Vision-test set . 
_ _no 
1 
1 
1 
i 
' 1 
1 
Washtubs.. _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
i 
2 
2 
Water coolers 
no 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
3 
209. FURNITURE AND APPLIANCES 
FOR OPER- 
ATING ROOM. 
The following articles will be furnished 
on 
requisition, to 
those posts at which the surgeon reports that a room is avail- 
able for use as an operating room 
1 operating table. 1 table for instruments. 
*1 case for instruments. *1 case for dressings, 
etc. 
6 scalpels, metal handles. 
3 operating gowns for surgeons and assistants. 
*Note.—Authority will be given for the purchase 
or manufacture of these cases 
at the post if they can be so obtained at a reasonable price. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
97 
1 surgical cushion, Kelly’s. 
8 tubes, catgut, assorted sizes, in Fowler’s tubes. 
1 dozen spools, Halstead’s, for silk ligature. 
1 coil silkworm gut. 
1 dozen brushes for cleansing. 
1 kilo green soap. 
ENAMELED WARE. 
1 instrument boiler. 2 pitchers. 
2 wash basins. 2 pails. 
4 basins for sponges, etc. 2 trays for instruments. 
GLASSWARE. 
2 Petri’s dishes for needles, etc. . 
2 small jars, covered, for ligatures, etc. 
4 larger jars, covered, for dressings, etc. 
6 flasks for flushing solutions. 
G 4-liter bottles, g. s., for antiseptic solutions. 
210. 
COMPOSITION OF TABLETS. 
The words pills, tablets, and trochisci are used synonymously throughout the Sup- 
ply Table. Compound tablets which are not official and are referred to by these 
names have the following composition : 
Aloini Pilulae Composite. 
Copaibae Pilulae Composite. 
8 
Copaiba _ _ mgms 
100 
Podophylli resiua mgins 
Belladonnae fol. ext. alc__rngms. 
Strychnina _ _ mgm 
8 
8 
0.8 
2.7 
Resina guaiaci _ mgms 
Ferricitras _ mgms 
Oleoresina cubebse mgms 
Ferri Pilulae Compositae. 
24 
24 
40 
Ammonii Chloridi Trochisci. 
65 
Ferri pyrophosphas _ mgms 
Amraonii chloridi _ rngms 
130 
Strychninse sulphas . mgm 
1 
Extractum glycyrrhizae 
Hydrarg. Chi. Mite Cum Sodii 
518 
3 
32 
65 
Antiseptic., 
Sodii bicarb mgms 
Hyoscyami Pilulae Compositae. 
Hydrargyri chloridum cor.mgms 
500 
Extractum hyoscyami mgms. 
65 
Ammonii chloridum mgms 
475 
Camphora .mgms. 
65 
One tablet to one-half liter of 
Oleoresina capsici .mgms 
3 
water makes a l-to-1000 solution. 
Morphinae acetas mgms 
3 
8535 13 98 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
COMPOSITION OF TABLETS-Continued. 
Linimentum Rubefaciens. 
Pilulae Camphorae et Opii. 
Camphora mgms 
500 
Camphora . mgms 
130 
500 
66 
Ext. belladonna! fol. ale mgms. 
Dissolve one tablet on 30 e. c. 
of alcohol. 
500 
Pilulae Carminativae. 
Mistura Glycyrrhizae Com- 
posita. 
Morphia® sulphas mgm. 
Camphora _ mgms 
0.8 
16 
32 
Extractum glycyrrhizae mgnis_ 
Camphora _ mgms 
Acidum henzoicum _ mgms 
Opium mgms 
6 
2.5 
2.5 
2.5 
Sodii carbonas exsic _ mgms. 
Oleoresina capsici mgms 
Oleum mentli® piperit® .mgms. 
100 
2.7 
5 
Antimouii et pot. tartras mgm. 
1 
Sodii Bicarb, et Mentha pip. 
Oleum anisi. _ _ . mgms 
Each tablet is the practical 
2.5 
Sodii bicarbonas _ mgms 
258 
equivalent of 4 c. c. of brown 
Ammonii carbonas . .mgms 
16 
mixture. 
Oleum menth® piperit® .mgms. 
5 
211. BOTTLES 
AND JARS CONTAINED 
DISPENSING SET. 
IN 
Tincture Bottles. 
Salt-mouth Bottles. 
1-liter 
no 
ii 
500-gm . 
no. 
9 
500-c. c 
_ no_ 
9 
250-gm 
no 
28 
250-c. c _ 
__no 
21 
125-gm _ - 
no_ 
22 
125-c. c 
_110_ 
6 
60-gm. . _ 
no_ 
23 
60-c. c 
no 
18 
Salt-mouth Bottles, 
Blue. 
Tincture Bottles, Blue. 
* 
liO-gm 
no. 
i 
125-c. c _ 
no 
2 
Total. 
Steeple-top Jars. 
Bottles _ _ 
no_ 
153 
250-gm _ 
no 
10 
Jars 
no 
10 
212. CONTENTS IN DETAIL OF THE CASES, ETC. 
(To which reference is made in the Supply Table.) 
COMPRESSED-AIR APPARATUS. 
Air container, with gauge _no 
1 
Davidson’s sprays, in set, viz: 
Force pump no 
1 
Atomizer tutus, h. r _ 
no 
3 
Tubing, thick rubber, silk- 
Bottles, with h. r.-caps 
no_ 
3 
covered, connecting con- 
Cut-off, metal _ 
no 
1 
2.4 
1 
Tubing, thick rubber, con- 
Tube connector, h. r 
_no 
1 
necting container with 
force pump meters 
1.2 
Tube, wires for cleauing 
no_ 
2 MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
99 
213. 
(In wooden box, with handle and lock.) 
RESTRAINT APPARATUS. 
Anklets _ 
pair 
1 Strap, bed, as per circular no_ 
1 
Keys to lock buckles 
„n<» 
5 ! Strap, waist no 
1 
noJ 
1 
1 
214. 
SPRAY-PRODUCING APPARATUS. 
(Rumbold’s, for Petrolatum.) 
Air bulb, soft rubber _ no 
1 
Spray producers, metal, 
Mirror, hinged, 3 glasses no 
1 
(Nos. 1, 2, 4,' 5). no 
Tongue depressor, 3 blades no. 
4 
Speculum, nasal, adjustable 
blades _ _ no. 
1 
1 
215. 
CONTENTS OF ASPIRATING CASE. 
(In morocco case.) 
Needles, aspirating ._ 
.no 
3 
Tube, metallic, withextramres-.no- 
1 
Obturator, blunt, for cannula_ 
__n >_ 
1 
Tubing attachments no - 
4 
Pump 
no 
1 
Tubing, rubber pieces 
3 
Tube, double current, metal, 
with rubber stopper 
no 
1 
Trocar and cannula, with 
stopcock - - no 
1 
216. 
CONTENTS OF CAPITAL OPERATING CASES. 
Two patterns of cases under this name have been issued, and will be referred to 
hereafter as Nos. 1 and 2, in accordance with the dates of issue. The contents are 
essentially the same, but they may be readily distinguished by No. 1 being a nar- 
row, thick case, containing a leaden mallet, while No. 2, which was a part of most 
of the late personal sets, is a wide, flat case, and does not contain a mallet. 
CASK NO. 1 
Catlin, long _ uo 
Callin, small _ no 
1 
1 
Needle, aneurism, handle 
and 3 tips 
_no_ 
i 
Chisel . _ no 
[ 
Needle, key, artery , 
Needles, surgeon’s 
n o_ 
i 
Drills, with one handle no 
4 
I10_ 
12 
Elevator and raspatory, com- 
Retractors 
_ no 
2 
bined _ .. no 
1 
Saw, bow, 2 blades_ 
no 
1 
Forceps, artery, fenestrated, 
Saw, chain 
no 
1 
spring catch _ _ _ no 
1 
Saw, Hey's . _ _ 
Saw, metacarpal 
no 
1 
Forceps, {tone, gouge no 
Forceps, bone, Zow*/, slightly bent.no_ 
1 
no 
1 
1 
Scalpels 
no 
3 
Forceps, heme, long, angled no_ 
1 
Scissors, straight 
no 
1 
l 
1 
Gouge „ - no 
1 
Tourniquet, screw 
no 
1 
IIo'olc, double _ _no 
1 
Trephine, brush for 
no 
1 
Knife, amputating, Zomy .no. 
1 
Trephine, conical 
no 
1 
Knife, amputating, medium no_ 
1 
Trephine, crown 
no 
1 
knife, cartilaqe _ no 
1 
Trephine, handle for 
no_ 
1 
5 
Wax 
piece 
1 
Mallet, leaden no_ 
1 
(In mahogany case, with leather pouch.) 100 
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CASE NO. 2. 
1 
i 
Catlin, long no. 
1 
Needles, surgeon’s _ . 
no 
12 
l 
1 
Chisel _ no 
1 
Razor 
no 
1 
Drills, with one handle no 
4 
Retractors 
no 
2 
1 
1 
Forceps, artery, bulbous, slide 
Saw, chain 
no 
1 
catch __ _ no 
I 
Saw, Heq’s 
.no 
1 
Forceps, bone, gouge, curved no_ 
1 
Saw, movable back _ _ 
no 
1 
Forceps, bone, gouge, straight no_ 
1 
Scalpels 
_no 
3 
1 
1 
1 
2 
Forceps, sequestrum no 
1 
Tourniquet, screw, with pad 
_no_ 
I 
Gouge _ no 
1 
Trephine, brush for 
no. 
i 
Knife, amputating, long no. 
1 
Trephine, conical 
no 
2 
Knife, amputating, medium no. 
1 
Trephine, handle foi' 
no 
1 
Knife, cartilage _ .. no 
1 
Trocar and cannula, straight 
_no_ 
1 
5 
1 
Needle, aneurism, handle and 
8 tips_ _ _ _ no 
1 
(In mahogany case, with leather pouch.) 
217. 
CONTENTS OF DENTAL CASE. 
(In small morocco case.) 
Burnishers (Nos. 3, 29, 36) ,_no_ 
3 
Gutta-percha _ - 
- -gins 
30 
Chisels (Nos. 77, 135) .no. 
2 
Handles for instruments 
_llO 
(i 
Explorer (No. 5)_ no 
1 
Hone 
no 
1 
Excavators (Nos. 10, lk, 16, 
Mirror 
no 
1 
21, k 1,82,86, lkl, W, 11*5) __no. 
10 
Paper, bibulous 
sheets 
6 
Files (2 each of Nos. 00, 0, 1) no_ 
6 
Scaler (No. 3) - 
_ no 
1 
Forceps, college _ - - no 
1 
Spatula (No. 1) 
no 
1 
218. 
Tablets in 15-c. c. Bottles. 
Hypodermic Tablets, in 
Tubes. 
200 
Apomorphina; hydrochlo 
ras* . . . 
Acidum tannicum 
mgms. 
324 
mgms 
6 
0.1 
0. 05 
Aloini composite 
Oocainas liydroeh loras 
_mgms_ 
10 
324 
1 
Antiseptic _ 
Morphine- sulphas* 
_mgms 
8 
Hismuthi subnitras _ 
.in gms 
324 
N itroglycerin um 
mgm 
0.65 
Carminativse _ 
— 
Quininae hydrochloras 
-“ignis- 
32 
1 
324 
0.3 
Ergotinum nigms 
Hydrargyrum chi. mite cum sodii 
130 
Bistoury, curved and straight, of 
each _ _ . no 
1 
forceps, nsnaosiatic 
Ligature, silk 
Needles, surgical 
Plaster, isinglass 
no 
1 
Mornhinse sulphas _ 
Opii tinctura camphorata 
mgms 
c. c_ 
8 
0.4 
324 
- -gnu 
_110 
roll 
1 
r> 
l 
Potassii bromidum 
l 
.mgms 
324 
Quininse sulphas 
mgms 
200 
Sulphonal 
mgms 
324 
Syringe, hypodermic 
_ .no. 
i 
Thermometer, clinical 
_ no. 
i 
* Tablets marked thus are in 
the hypodermic syringe case. 
CONTENTS OF EMERGENCY CASE. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
101 
219. 
CONTENTS OF EYE AND EAR CASE. 
(In mahogany case, with leather pouch.) 
This list does not correspond to the contents of all eye and ear cases; discrepancies 
should be noted. 
2 
i 
Catheter, eustachian, It. r 
no 
1 
Needle, stop, curved 
-110. 
i 
Curette 
no_ 
1 
Needle, stop, straight 
no 
1 
1 
1 
6 
Forceps, angular, for ear 
no. 
1 
Ophthalmoscope 
no 
i 
Forceps, cilia 
no 
1 
Optometer (Thompson's) 
no 
i 
Forceps, fixation 
no 
1 
Probes, lachrymal, double, 
Forceps, iridectomy, angular 
_no_ 
1 
silver 
4 
Forceps, iridectomy, curved 
_no_ 
1 
Scalpel . 
1 
Forceps, iridectomy, straight 
_no_ 
1 
Scissors, curved on the flat 
.no. 
1 
Hook, blunt 
no 
1 
Scissors,iris (Noyes's) on handle 
_no. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Hook, strabismus 
no 
2 
Scoop and hook, metal handle_ 
_no_ 
1 
Keralome, angular 
no 
2 
Silk, fine 
gin- 
1 
Knife {Beer's), cataract 
no 
1 
Speculmns, ear, in nest _ 
.no 
3 
Knife (Graefe's), linear _ 
no 
1 
Speculum, eye, slop 
-lio 
1 
Knife, iris 
no 
1 
Speculum, eye. slop (Graefe's) 
_no_ 
1 
Knife, iris, double-edge . 
no 
l 
Spoon, lens, h. r 
.no 
1 
Lid holder, larqe and small 
_no_ 
2 
Spoon, lens, fenestrated 
no. 
1 
Lid holder, hard rubber 
no 
1 
Spud, Ltix's 
no_ 
1 
2 
2 
Mirror, laryngoscopic, with 
Syringe (Anel's), with 3 tips 
_no_ 
1 
head hand _ 
no_ 
1 
Wax piece 
1 
220. 
CONTENTS OF FIELD CASE.* 
(In wooden case, with leather pouch and sling strap with buckle and snap hooks.) 
Bistoury, curved 
_no 
1 
Ligature, silk 
gins 
3 
Catheter, silver, jointed 
.no 
1 
Needles, surgeon’s- 
Probe (Nelaton's) 
no 
12 
Director and aneurism needle _ 
_110_ 
1 
no 
1 
Forceps, artery and needle, com 
- 
Saw blade, movable back 
no 
1 
bined - _ _ 
_no 
1 
Bam blade, handle 
no 
1 
Forceps, hone 
_no 
1 
Scalpel 
no. 
1 
Forceps, bullet 
.110 
1 
Scissors, straight 
Serrefines (Lanaenbeck's) _ 
no 
1 
Forceps, dress iny 
.IlO 
1 
no 
4 
Knife, amputating, blade 
.no. 
1 
Tenaculum 
no 
1 
Knife, amputating, handle 
.no 
1 
Wax _ _ . __ 
piece. 
1 
* This is the case 
recently issued as “surgeon’s field case 
” 
221. 
CONTENTS OF FIELD OPERATING CASE. 
This list does not correspond to the contents of all field operating cases; dis- 
crepancies should be noted. 
(In mahogany case, with leather pouch.) 
X 
i 
Bistoury, curved,probe-pointed no_ 
1 
Director _ _ _ 
i 
Bistouries, straight . no. 
2 
Elevator 
n o 
i 
Catheters, silver, Nos. 3, 6, and 9 . n o 
3 
Elevator andraspatory,combined no_ 
X 
Catlin, long no_ 
X 
Forceps, artery, spring _ 
no 
1 102 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
Forceps, bone, curved 
no 
i 
Saw, bow, 2 blades no 
1 
i 
1 
Forceps, dissecting 
no 
i | 
Saw, Hey's no 
1 
Forceps, dressing 
no 
i 
Saiv, metacarpal no 
1 
i 
1 
Knife, amputating, long 
no 
i 
Scissors, angular _ no 
1 
Knife, amputating, medium 
no. 
i 
Scissors, straight no 
1 
Knife, hernia 
no 
i 
Sounds, steel, silvered, double 
Ligature, silk 
gms_ 
5 
curve, Nos. 1-2,3-U, 5-6, 7- 
Needle, aneurism, handle and 
3 
8, 9-10, 11-12 no 
6 
1 
1 
Needle, key, artery 
no. 
1 
Tourniquet, screw, with pad no_ 
1 
12 
1 
Probe, bidlet, long 
Probe (Nelalon's) 
no 
1 
Trephine, conical, and handle-no_ 
1 
.no 
1 
Trocar and cannula, curved no. 
1 
Razor 
no 
1 
Wax piece. 
1 
Retractors 
2 
CONTENTS OF FIELD OPERATING CASE—Continued. 
222. 
CONTENTS OF HAEMOSTATIC FORCEPS CASE. 
Halstead's straiqld 
_no 
i 
Tail's long grip 
no 
i 
Halstead's curved 
_no 
i 
Tait's short 4/rip_ 
no_ 
i 
Jones's angular 
_no 
i 
Thornton's T 
. no 
i 
i 
2 
Little's fenestrated _ 
i 
Wood's (Lean's) small 
no 
2 
(In morocco case.) 
223. 
CONTENTS OF HAEMOSTATIC FORCEPS CASE. 
(Surgical chest.) 
Halstead's curved, light _ 
no 
6 
Pratt's T-shaped no 
1 
Halstead's curved, heani __ 
no- 
2 
Senu's long-jaw, mouse-toothed .no_ 
1 
Jones's straight _ _ 
no 
2 
224. 
CONTENTS OF GENITO-URETHRAL CASE. 
Bougies d bottle (Otis's), metal, 
nickel-plated, Nos. 11, lit, 17, 
Cange, steel (American and 
French) .. no 
1 
21, 26, 30 . . no 
6 
Canges, pasteboard (American 
Catheter, double current, silver no 
1 
and French) no 
2 
Catheter, grooved and tunneled 
Guides, whalebone (Conley’s)..no. 
12 
(Conley's), with stylet . no 
1 
Guides, whalebone (Otis's) . no. 
2 
Catheter and staff, grooved and 
tunneled (Conley's), until stylet.no. 
Knife, beaked (Conley’s) no 
1 
1 
Sounds, set of It, lilting one 
Grin de Florence. no 
1 
handle .. set 
1 
Dilator (Thompson's), modified 
Sounds, tunneled (Conley’s) no. 
3 
by Conley no 
1 
Tenaculum (Conley's) no. 
1 
Director, silver (Conley's) . no 
Forceps, urethral (Thompson's) .no. 
1 
Urethrotome, dilating(Gouley’s), 
1 
with two tunnel tips no 
1 
(In rosewood case.) 103 
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225. 
CONTENTS OF GENITO URINARY CASE. 
(In mahogany case.) 
Bistoury for meatus (Otis's) no_ 
Bougies d boule (Otis's), metal, 
1 
TJrethrometer (Otis's), hinged no. 
Ureth remoter, rubber covers 
1 
nickel-plated, Nos. 8 to 40, 
for _ no. 
12 
'inclusive . no. 
Endoscopes (Otis's, h. r.), Nos. 
33 
Urethrotome, Maisonneuve's, 
No. 8, Otis's gauge, with two 
22, 26, and 32 no 
3 
blades, two filiform bougies 
Gauge (Otis's), steel no 
1 
and one extra tunneled lip for 
Guides (Otis's), whalebone no 
Sounds (Otis's),short-beaked,steel, 
2 
whalebone guide _ no 
Urethrotome, dilating (Otis's), 
1 
nickel-plated, Nos. 20 to 40, 
inclusive _ no 
21 
straight, with two blades no. 
1 
226. 
CONTENTS OF URETHRAL CASE. 
(In rosewood case, with lock.) 
But few of these have been issued. It is essentially the same as the genito-urinary 
case, but the arrangement and contents are somewhat different. 
Bougies a boule (Otis's), metal, 
Urethrometer (Otis's), spring no_ 
1 
nickel-plated, Nos. 8 to IS, in- 
Urethrometer, rubber covers 
elusive - no 
39 
for _ no 
12 
Catheter syringe, prostatic no 
1 
Urethrotome, dilating (Otis's), 
Gauge, steel _ no 
Sounds (Otis's),short-beaked,steel, 
1 
straight, with tivo blades no_ 
1 
nickel-plated, Nos. 21 to 46, In- 
clusive _ _ no 
26 
227. 
CONTENTS OF MINOR OPERATING CASE. 
(In brass-bound mahogany case, with leather pouch.) 
Bistoury, curved _ no 
1 
Pliers, wire-cutting, small 
.no 
i 
Bistoury, curved, probe-pointed 
1 
Probang, oesophageal 
no 
i 
2 
i 
Cannula (Bellocq's) no 
1 
Probe (Sayre's), vertebrated 
-110- 
i 
Catheter, prostatic, silver .. no 
1 
Scalpels 
.no 
2 
Catheters, silver, Nos. 3,6, and9-no. 
3 
Scissors, angular 
no 
1 
Director _ no. 
1 
Scissors, curved 
.no 
1 
1 
1 
Forceps, artery, fenestrated, slide 
Serrefines 
no 
6 
1 
1 
Forceps, bullet no 
1 
Sounds, steel, silvered, double- 
Forceps, dissecting no 
1 
curve, Nos. 1-3,3-4,5-6, 7-8, 
Forceps, dressing no 
1 
g-10, 11-13. . 
no 
6 
Forceps, oesophageal _ no 
1 
Staff, grooved, large 
no_ 
1 
Forceps, tracheotomy (Troiis- 
Staff, grooved, medium _ 
no 
1 
scan's) no 
1 
Staff (Syme’s) 
no 
1 
1 
1 
Knife, hernia _ no. 
1 
Tonsillotome 
no 
1 
Ligature, silk . . _ .. gms 
5 
Trocar and cannula, curved 
no. 
1 
Needle, artery, with four tips no_ 
i 
Tubes, tracheotomy, double 
no_ 
2 
Needle, key, artery _ _ no 
i 
Wax .niece 
1 
Needles, surgeon’s no 
12 104 
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228. 
CONTENTS OF OBSTETRICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL CASE. 
(In leather trunk case, with handles and lock.) 
Blunt hook and crotchet, guarded.no. 
1 
Probe, uterine, silver, with silver 
Bottle, g. s. and g. c.,for Little's 
applicator, set-screw handle, 
saline mixture __ _no 
1 
and sponge tent expeller no 
1 
Bottle, g. s. and g. c.,for styptic.no. 
1 
Scarifier (Buttles s) no 
1 
Bottle, g. s. and g. c., for ergot no_ 
1 
Scissors, uterine, curved on the 
Catheter (Sims's) sigmoid, metal.no_ 
1 
flat - . ... no 
1 
Gephalotribe(craniotomj forceps) no. 
1 
Sound, folding (Simpson's) no_ 
1 
Dilators (Barnes's), with slop- 
Speculum, vaginal and anal, 
:t 
1 
Dilator, uterine, small . no. 
l 
Suppository tube, intra-uteriue, 
Elevator, uterine (Sirns's), with 
h. r no 
1 
two points no 
l 
Syringe, rubber, self-injecting ..no. 
1 
l 
1 
Forceps,placenta (Loomis's) no. 
l 
Tenaculum (Noll's) no 
1 
Forceps, short (Brickell's) no 
l 
Transfusion set (Fryer's)* no 
1 
Funis clamp (Pulling's) . no 
l 
Vectis, with handle no 
1 
Perforator (Thomas's) no. 
1 
* With directions for use, and consisting of a rubber tube with two bulbs 
receiver, and giver’s and receiver’s cannula;. 
a glass 
229. 
(In leather case, with metal clips and chamois cover.) 
CONTENTS OF POCKET CASE, ASEPTIC. 
Bistoury, curved no 
1 
Needle, aneurism, and 
qrooved 
Bistoury, curved, probe-pointed_no- 
1 
director _ 
- _no 
i 
Bistoury, straight_ no 
1 
Needle, explorinq 
no 
i 
Catheter, jointed, male and female 
Needles, surgeon’s 
Probe (Nelaton's) 
no 
12 
tips - no. 
1 
— no 
1 
Caustic holder . no 
1 
Probe, silver 
no 
1 
Forceps, needle and fenestrated, 
Scalpel 
no 
1 
artery __ no 
1 
Scissors _ _ 
no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Ligature, silk _ gm 
1 
Wax 
1 
Needle, aneurism _ no 
1 
230. 
CONTENTS OF POCKET CASE, PERSONAL. 
(Tn leather case, with leather or gutta-percha cover.) 
This case was formerly part of the “personal set.” 
i 
1 
Bistoury, curved, probe-poiuled_ 
_110_ 
i 
Needle, aneurism 
no. 
i 
Bistoury, straight 
no. 
i 
Needle, exploring 
Needles, surgeon’s . 
_no_ 
i 
Cnllieter jointed, male and female 
no 
9 
tips 
_110 
i 
Probes 
.. no. 
2 
Caustic holder 
i 
Probe (Nflaton's) 
no 
1 
Director, grooved 
no 
i 
Scapel _ _ 
no 
1 
no 
i 
1 
no 
i 
no. 
1 
i 
1 
Lancet, thumb _ __ 
-110- 
i 
Wax 
1 MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
105 
231. 
CONTENTS OF POCKET CASE, POST. 
This name will be used when reference is made to the red morocco pocket case 
with chamois cover issued during the past few years for post use. 
The list of contents is the same as that of the aseptic pocket case, but the aneurism 
and exploring needles, knives, and tenaculum are detachable from the two hard- 
rubber or ivory handles. Some cases contain a combined needle and fenestrated 
artery f orceps and a haemostatic forceps; others a plain artery and a dressing forceps. 
232. 
CONTENTS OF POST-MORTEM CASE. 
(Handles of saw and of all knives are of ebony; those of costotome, hammer, and 
tenaculum are of steel. In mahogany box.) 
Most of the post-mortem cases now in use are in accordance with the following list. 
Blowpipe _ 
.no 
i 
Knife, amputating, small 
no 
i 
Chain and hooks 
no 
i 
Knife, cartilage 
no 
i 
Chisel 
no 
i 
Needles (and thread) 
_ no 
2 
i 
1 
Enterotome 
no 
i 
Scalpels, assorted 
no 
3 
i 
1 
Hammer, steel - - 
no 
i 
Tenaculum 
n o_ 
1 
Knife, amputating, large 
__ no. 
i 
233. 
CONTENTS OF DISSECTING CASE. 
(In wooden case.) 
This case is dropped from the regular list of the Supply Table, as it is practically 
duplicated by the post-mortem case. Those now on hand will he issued to the 
smaller posts in lieu of the larger post-mortem case. Its contents are as follows : 
Blotcpipe 
-no 
i 
Knife, cartilage 
no 
i 
Chain aud hooks _ 
no_ 
i 
Noodles (and thread) 
no 
2 
Chisel _ _ 
_ _ _no 
i 
Scalpels, assorted 
no 
3 
i 
1 
i 
1 
234. 
CONTENTS OF STOMACH-PUMP CASE. 
(In mahogany case, with lock and key.) 
Foot, metal _ _ _ no 
1 
Pipes, injecting, ivory, straight-no_ 
2 
1 
f 
Gag, screw _ __ no 
1 
Pump, brass, Zem* no 
1 
1 
1 
Pipe, injecting, ivory, angular no_ 
1 
Tube, stomach _ no 
1 
235. 
CONTENTS OF TOOTH-EXTRACTING CASE. 
(In leather-covered case, with lock and double handle.) 
Elevators (Nos. 0 and 7) . no 
2 
Forceps, upper bicuspid and ca- 
Forceps, cowhorn (No. 23) no 
1 
nine (No. 11) no 
1 
Forceps, lower bicuspid and ca- 
Forceps, upper front root (No. 1) no_ 
1 
nine (No. 21) no_ 
1 
Forceps, upper incisor and ca- 
Forceps, lower incisor and bicus- 
nine (No. 13) no. 
1 
pid (No. lit)- - - _no 
1 
Forceps, upper molar (No. 18) 11 <J 
1 
Forceps, lower molar (No. 15) ..no. 
1 
Forceps, upper wisdom (No. 10)-no. 
1 
Forceps, universal root (No. 7) no_ 
1 
Lancet, gum _ _ no 
1 
8535 14 106 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
236. 
CONTENTS OF CASE OF TRIAL LENSES. 
(In mahogany case, with lock and two keys.) 
BAUSCH & LOMB. 
Twenty pairs spherical convex lenses. 
Twenty pairs spherical concave lenses, both from 2 to 160 English inches focus. (I). 20-0.25.) 
Eleven cylindrical convex lenses. 
Eleven cylindrical concave lenses, both from 8.88 to 160 English inches focus. (D. 4. 
50-0 25.) 
Six prisms, 2°, 3°, 4°, 5°, 8°, 12°. 
Fire discs, one white and one ground glass, one plain metal, one metal with hole in center, 
and one metal with stenopaic slit. 
Four colored glasses—red, blue, green, and brown. 
One graduated trial frame, No. 3, double cell. 
One graduated trial frame, No. 2, double cell, adjustable. 
QUEEN. 
(In mahogany case, with lock and key.) 
Tu'enty pairs spherical convex lenses. 
Twenty pairs spherical concave lenses, both from 2 to 48 inches focus. 
Eight cylindrical convex lenses. 
Eight cylindrical concave lenses, both from 9 to 72 inches focus. 
Five prisms, 2°, 3°, 4C, 5°, 8°. 
Three metal discs, one plain, one with hole in center, and one with stenopaic slit. 
Four colored glasses—red, blue, green, and brown. 
One single lens holder. 
One trial frame. 
237. 
This consists of a nickel-plated stand, with boiler, spirit lamp, and detachable 
handle. There are two attachments, a long inhaler and short deodorizer; both 
have a reservoir holding sponge saturated with the preparation to be vaporized. 
INHALER AND VAPORIZER. 
238. 
MICROSCOPES. 
The names of the manufacturer and of the microscope will be noted on all 
invoices, receipts, and property returns. 
THE “UNIVERSAL” MICROSCOPE. 
Made by the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company. In two cases, the contents of 
which are as follows: 
Microscope Case. 
J Glass covers 
Glass slides 
no 
6 
6 
(In upright cherry-wood case, 
Case of Microscopical Acces- 
with handle, lock, and extra 
sories. 
hook and post fastenings.) 
(In cherry-wood case, 
with 
i 
handle, lock, and extra hook 
Glass stage and slide carrier 
uo_ 
i 
and post fastenings.) 
Eyepieces, A and G 
no 
2 
Microtome 
1 
Eyepiece micrometer _ 
no_ 
1 
Knife for same, one side tint, 
in 
Concave and plain mirror 
.no 
1 
case 
1 
Objective, 2-inch 
no 
1 
Syringe, brass, with four vines 
Objective, J -inch 
no 
1 
and stopcock, in case 
no 
1 
Objective, \-inch _ 
no 
l 
Turntable, self-centering 
no 
1 
no. 
1 
4 
Abbe condenser with iris dia- 
Glass covers 
gnis. 
30 
phrtujm 
no 
1 
Carmine 
gms 
If. 
Double nosepiece 
no 
1 
Canada balsam 
gnis 
30 
Iris diaphragm, with mibstage 
Balsam bottle 
1 
adapter arranged to take dia- 
Dropping bottle, for oil of cedar-no. 
I 
phragm or objective 
no 
I 
Gentian violet 
-gnis. 
4 
Devolving diaphragm 
no 
1 
Bismarck brown 
.gms. 
4 
Bidl’s-eye condenser _ 
no 
1 
Methvl bine 
gnis 
4 
Stage forceps _ 
no 
1 
Fuchsin 
gms 
4 
Camera lucida 
no 
1 
60 
Forceps _ * 
no 
1 
Paraffin manual for the medical department. 
107 
NOTES. 
Eyepiece A, 2-inch objective gives about Eyepiece C, 2-inch objective gives about 
25 diam. 50 diarn. 
Eyepiece A, %-inch objective gives about Eyepiece C, f-inch objective gives about 
50 diam. 100 diam. 
Eyepiece A, jf-inch objective gives about Eyepiece C, J-incli objective gives about 
210 diam. 420 diam. 
Eyepiece A, jh-inch objective gives about Eyepiece C, T]5-iuch objective gives about 
570 diam. 1140 diam. 
Made by the Bansch & Lomb Optical Company, and of which many have been 
issued, consists of the following : 
THE “INVESTIGATOR” MICROSCOPE. 
Microscope Case. 
Case of Microscopical Acces- 
The contents of this case are the same 
sories. 
as those of the Universal microscope, the 
Section cutter, with freezing ap- 
stand alone being of a slightly different 
paratiis _ no 
1 
pattern. 
Razor, large, one side flat, with 
handle, in case _no_ 
Syringe, 15-c. c., brass, with 
four pipes and stopcock, in 
1 
case _ .no 
1 
Turntable, self-centering no. 
1 
Glass covers gms 
30 
Glass slides _ doz 
4 
Carmine gms 
15 
Canada balsam gms 
30 
In cases, etc., as above. 
Balsam bottle _ __ no 
1 
Dropping bottle, for cedar oil no. 
1 
THE “CONTINENTAL” MICROSCOPE. 
Made by the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company. In one case (upright cherry 
wood, with handle, lock, and extra hook and post fastenings—no separate case of 
accessories accompanies this microscope;, the contents of which are as follows : 
1 
1 
Eyepieces _ _ no_ 
2 
Objective, J .no 
1 
Abbe condenser, with iris dia- 
phragm . no 
1 
Objective, j'j, oil immersirm no. 
1 
239. 
SURGICAL PUMP. 
(In leather bag, with lock and key, and directions for use. -Those heretofore issued 
are of two or three different patterns, and do not exactly correspond to this list.) 
Allen’s Surgical Pump, No. 12, will in future be supplied, and consists of the fol" 
lowing outfit: 
Bottles, g. s _ 
no- 
2 
Dilator, uterine, silk covers 
Bottles (vials) 
no 
2 
for - no 
4 
Catheter and connector .... 
no 
1 
Needles, aspirating ..no 
4 
Clamp attachment _ _ 
no 
1 
Pipe, breast, nipple (glass) no . 
1 
Cock, two-way, rubber, for inject- 
Pipes, syringe [ear, postnasal, 
ing _ 
no 
1 
vaginal, rectal, and uterine) no_ 
5 
Connector tube_ 
no 
1 
Pump, 9 cm. and tube _ no 
1 
Connectors with cut-offs 
no 
3 
Pump, extra tube for _ no 
1 
Couplings, “ Universal ” 
__ no 
2 
Tampons _ no 
2 
Cupper, uterine, metal _ 
no 
1 
Tampons, extra bags for no_ 
4 
Cupper glasses 
no 
5 
Trocar, dome _ no 
1 
Dilator, uterine, 
no 
1 
Tube, stomach and connector 
1 
Dilator, uterine, small 
no 
1 108 
MANUAL, FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
240. 
HYPODERMIC SYRINGE. 
These syringes as now issued have as accessories, besides two needles and extra 
wires (the needles and wires are expendable), one tube of each of the following 
hypodermic tablets : 
Apomorphinae liydrochlo- 
1 
6 
8 
Atropinse sulphas mgm 
0.G5 ! 
241. 
THERMO CAUTERY, PAQUELIN'S. 
An improved pattern has recently been adopted. The contents are the same 
except that the combustion chamber or lamp is omitted, the modified reservoir for 
hydrocarbon rendering it unnecessary. 
(In morocco case.) 
Apparatus, double bulb, for sup- 
Handle, cannulated, ebony no 
1 
plying air _ no 
1 
Iteservoir for hydrocarbon, 
Cautery button _ no.. 
1 
nickel-plated no 
1 
Cautery knife no 
Combustion c h a m her (lamp), 
1 
Tube, lengthening no 
Tube, rubber .... no 
1 
1 
nickel-plated _ no 
1 
242. 
TYPEWRITER. 
The typewriting machine, as issued, has the following outfit, with printed circular 
of instructions : 
Impression strips (extra) 
no 
2 
Screw-driver _ ___ 
no 
i 
1 
2 
Oil can 
no 
1 
Type wheel * large and small 
Oil 
bott 
1 
capitals 
__ no 
1 
Ribbon, copying, 
Ribbon, record, black 
no. 
1 
Tape wheel, larye Homan 
no_ 
1 
no 
1 
Type wheel, small Homan- 
no 
1 
Ribbon shield (extra) 
no 
1 
*The new pattern or remodeled machine has the key for mainspring attached, and 
a type shuttle is used instead of a type wheel. 
f Medical officers to whom typewriting machines have been issued will be partic- 
ular, by timely requisition, to keep a supply of freshly-inked typewriting ribbons, and 
to see that the “hammer-spring adjusting nut” on tire back of the machine is so set 
as to secure a forcible impression when each key is struck. 
243. 
This set contains— 
1. A set of three test cards foruse at distances of 13, and 20 feet, respectively 
bearing the test characters. 
2. A simple optometer consisting of two leuses, one of 4-inch and the other of 10. 
inch focal length ; a brass holder with graduated'bar and sliding test-type holder ; six 
test-type cards, numbered 1, for the measurement of defects of refraction and accom- 
modation, and six type-test cards, numbered 2, for the measurement of astigmatism. 
VISION-TEST SET. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
109 
3. A set of test wools for the detection of color-blindness, consisting of three 
larger skeins of “test colors” (one pale green, one rose color, called purple, and 
one bright red); and one hundred and forty-four small skeins of “confusion colors,” 
as follows : 
Of pure gray, four shades, two skeins of each. 
Of the colors named below, eight shades, one skein of each, all wrapped in a piece 
of muslin 1 meter square. 
Hair-brown. 
Lion-brown. 
Olive-brown. 
Wood-brown. 
Pearl-gray. 
Scarlet. 
Orange. 
Yellow. 
Yellow-green. 
Olive-green. 
Green. 
Blue-green. 
Blue, No. 1. 
Blue, No. 2. 
Violet. 
Purple, No. 1 (Bose Victoria). 
Purple, No. 2. 
4. A small paper box in which to keep the extra lens and the twelve test-type cards. 
5. A pamphlet of directions for using the vision-test set. 
C. A painted tin box containing all the foregoing. 
The cases named in the following list, viz, amputating, exsecting, general operat- 
ing, and trephining, formed the “personal set” issued to medical officers prior to 
1868. Upon the adoption in the latter year of the personal set until recently issued 
individually to medical officers the former cases were transferred to hospitals as post 
cases of instruments, and a considerable number are still in use. 
244. 
CONTENTS OF AMPUTATING CASE. 
i 
i 
i 
Forceps, bone (nippers) 
no 
i 
metacarpal 
no 1 
Knife, amputating, /ow*/ 
_no 
i 
Scalpel 
no 1 1 
Knife, amputating, medium _ 
no_ 
i 
Tenaculum 
_no 1 1 
Knife, amputating, small 
no 
i 
Tourniquet, scre w, with pad 
no. 1 
2 
piece- 1 
(In mahogany case.) 
245. 
CONTENTS OF EXSECTING CASE. 
(In mahogany case, with gutta-percha cover.) 
Chisel _ 
no 
i 
Gouge 
__ _ _no 
i 
i 
i 
Forceps, bone, gouge 
no 
2 
Retractors 
no 
2 
Forceps, bone, long 
no 
1 
Saw, chain 
_no 
1 
Forceps, sequestrum _ 
_ no 
1 
Trephine 
no 
1 110 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
246. 
CONTENTS OF GENERAL OPERATING CASE. 
This set consists of two mahogany boxes with locks and keys, carried in a leather 
or heavy gutta-percha pouch, and containing the following : 
Box No. 1. 
Needle, cataract _ _ mo 
1 
Needle, hey, artery mo 
1 
1 
1*2 
Bistoury, curved, probe-pointed 
no 
l 
Saw, movable back _ mo_ 
i 
Bistoury, straiyhl 
MO 
i 
Scissors, curved _ no_ 
i 
Catlin . . 
noi 
l 
Scissors, straight _ mo 
i 
Forceps, bullet 
MO 
l 
Scalpels _ _no 
3 
i 
1 
i 
1 
Forceps, oesophageal _ 
MO 
l 
Trocar and cannula, straight no_ 
1 
Hook, double 
MO 
i 
Knife, amputating, small 
-MO 
l 
Box No. 2. 
Knife, hernia _ _ 
.MO 
l 
Needle, aneurism, handle and 
Catheters, metallic no 
3 
four tips _ _ 
110- 
l 
Sounds, metallic, double-curve-no- 
6 
247. 
CONTENTS OF TREPHINING CASE. 
2 
1 
Scalpel and raspatory 
no 
1 j Trephine, handle for 
110J 
i 
(In small mahogany box.) 
248. 
BACTERIOLOGICAL SET. 
Apparatus, filling, and stand uo. 
1 
Platinum wire, medium, 
4 
6 
Bath, tripod for_ _ no 
1 
Itegulator, gas (Reichert's) no_ 
i 
Pishes, double (Petri’s) _ no 
12 
Sterilizer, hot-air, cm. 38 x 28 
Filters {Pasteur's), mounted in 
x25.5 - no. 
i 
flask _no 
1 
Syringe, sierilizalile (Koch's), 
Flasks (Erlenmeyer'8\, 236-c. c no_ 
12 
1-c. c _ no 
i 
Incubator, lead-lined, cm. 45.5 
Test measure, footed, 10-c. c no. 
Test tube, bath for, copper no. 
i 
x 21.5 x 30.5*- „ — - no 
1 
i 
Micro-burner, 1 flame _ no 
* 1 
Test tubes, thin glass, 15-cm. 
Paper, filtering (Swedish) qrs_ 
2 
x 18 mm. bore. _ no 
30(1 
Pipettes, 1-c. c _ no. 
2 
Thermometers, 0-50° (' no 
2 
Platinum wire, li e a v y, 
Thermometer, 0-200° C UO 
1 
10-cm _ _ _ .pieces 
3 
* At stations where there is no gas an incubator, to be heated by petroleum flame, 
may be obtained upon application. 
249. 
Chemicals. 
Ammonium m olybdate 
(NII4i2Mo04 _ -grams 
50 
50 
Acid, oxalic, H2C2042H20-gramS- 
100 
Barium chi or id, BaCl2- 
Alcohol, ethylic, abs. C2H5- 
2II20 . grams 
50 
OH - - grams 
100 
Calcium carbonate, CaCo3-grms_ 
50 
CHEMICAL SET. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
111 
CHEMICAL SET—Continued. 
Chemicals—Continued. 
Corks, india rubber, perfo- 
rated _ doz 
1 
Calcium chlorid, CaCl2 grams. 
50 
100 
Crucibles,porcelain, conical no. 
Filters, cut, white (in 
packs of 100) _ pkgs. 
4 
Potassium d i c li r o in a t e, 
3 
K2Cr207 grams 
100 
Flasks, flat-bottomed, with lip no. 
6 
Potassium cyanid, KGN -.grams. 
50 
Flasks, round-bottomed, long 
Potassium ferricyanid, Kfi. 
neck _ no 
2 
Fe(CN)i2 - grams 
25 
Flasks, iSchuster'8, stoppered no_ 
6 
Potassium ferrocyanid, K4- 
1 
25 
2 
Potassium hydrate, KOII.grams. 
Potassium sulphocyanate, 
200 
2 
Glasses, Nessler, 50-c, c .no 
6 
50 
Pipe, block tin, 9-mm., for 
condensing distilled water, meters. 
Sodium phosphate, dry, 
6 
Na2HP04 grams 
50 
Pipettes, 10-c. c . no 
2 
Sodium hydrate, KaOil grams. 
200 
Pipette, 25-c. c _ .no 
1 
Sodium thiosulphate, N%- 
Pipette, 10-c. c., graduated no. 
1 
S2035H2O . grams 
100 
Platinum, crucible, SO-c. c mo. 
L 
Stannous chlorid, Sn012- 
lletorts, l-li(er, stoppered no 
2 
2II20 . grams 
50 
Hods, glass. _no_ 
12 
Uranic nitrate, U02(N03)2- 
Spatulas or spoons, porcelain no. 
2 
6H20 . ..grams. 
50 
Still, copper, 2-liter _ no 
1 
Methyl orange, NH4(J]4- 
Stopcocks for rubber tubing no. 
2 
10 
12 
Naphth y 1 am ine, C)0H7- 
Tubes, Ca Cl no 
2 
NH2 _ __ grams 
Phonolphthalein, O20- 
5 
Tubes, U no. 
3 
1 
10 
G 
Water bath for drying no 
1 
Apparatus. 
Miscellaneous. 
6 
15 
Bottles, g.s.n. m. 50,100, 200 c.c.no. 
24 
Copper foil ... grams 
25 
Burettes _ . _ no 
2 
Glass, blue . sq. cm 
9 
4 
50 
Capsules, porcelain, nest of 
Platinum foil _ sq.cm 
20 
1 
50 
Capsules, porcelain, 100-c. c no. 
G 
Zinc foil sq. cm 
20 
Capsules, porcelain, 250-c. c no. 
3 
Zinc, granulated grams 
100 
250. LIST OF BOOKS CONTAINED IN WOODS LIBRARY OF 
STANDARD MEDICAL AUTHORS. 
1879. 
Diseases of Children Ellis. 
Diseases of the Intestines and Peritoneum 
[Various authors. 1 
Diseases of the Liver, 3 vols Ererichs. 
Diseases of the Nervous System, 2 vols. 
Rosenthal. 
Diseases of Women Tait. 
Infant Feeding Kouth. 
Manual of Surgery Clarke. 
Mideria Medica and Therapeutics- Pli i 111 ps. 
Best and Pain Hilton. 
By years, 1879 to 1887, inclusive. 
1880. 
Diagnosis and Treatment of Ear Diseases. 
Buck. 
Female Pelvic Organs Savage. 
Foreign Bodies in Surgery, 2 vols Poulet. 
Functional Nervous Diseases Putzel.- 
Handbook of Physical Diagnosis-Guttmnn. 
Minor Surgical Gynaecology Munde. 
Pharynx, Larynx,and Trachea M ackenzie. 
Treatise on Therapeutics, 3 cok_Trousseau. 
Venereal Diseases Keyes. 112 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
LIST OF BOOKS CONTAINED IN WOOD’S LIBRARY OF STANDARD 
MEDICAL AUTHORS—Continued. 
1881. 
A Medical Formulary Johnson. 
A rtificial Anaesthesia and Anaesthetics. 
Lyman. 
A Treatise on Albuminuria Dickinson 
Diseases of the Bladder Coulson. 
Diseases of the Eye Noyes. 
Diseases of the Joints__ Barwell. 
Diseases of Old Age Charcot and Loomis. 
Food and Dietetics Pavy. 
General Medical Chemistry Witthaus. 
Handbook of Uterine Therapeutics Tilt. 
Materia Medicaand Therapeutics of the Skin. 
Piffard. 
The Continued Fevers Wilson. 
1882. 
Asthma Salter. 
Diseases of the Rectum and Arms Kelsey. 
Illustrations of Dissections, 2 vols. 
Ellis and Ford. 
Lectures on Diseases of Ghilaren Henoch. 
Legal Medicine, 2 vols Tidy. 
Materia Medica and Therapeutics, 2 vols. 
Phillips. 
Mental Pathology and Therapeutics. 
Griesinger. 
Practical Medical Anatomy Rauney. 
Rheumatism, Gout, and Allied Diseases. 
Longscreth. 
1883. 
A Text-book of Pathological Anatomy, rol. 1. 
Ziegler. 
Diseases and Injuries of the Horse Kirby. 
Diseases of Women Fritsch. 
Handbook of Electro-Therapeutics Erb. 
Hereditary Syphilis Diday and Sturgis. 
Manual of Gynaecology, 2 vols. 
Hart and Barbour. 
Manual of Practical Hygiene, 2 rots Parkes. 
The Microscope and its Revelations, 2 vols. 
Carpenter. 
Treatment of Wounds Pilcher. 
1884. 
A Text-book of Pathological Anatomy, vol 2. 
Ziegler. 
Diseases of the Heart Paul. 
Diseases of Urinary and Male Sexual 
Organs Belfield. 
Hooper's Physician's Vade Mecum, 2 vols. 
Hooper. 
Legal Medicine, vol. 3 Tidy. 
Malaria and Malarial Diseases Sternberg. 
Medical Botany of North America- Johnson. 
| (Esophagus, Nose, and Naxo-Pharynx. 
Mackenzie. 
| Pathology and Treatment of Gonorrhea. 
Milton. 
Practical Manual of Obstetrics. 
Yerrier and Partridge. 
Therapeutics of the Respiratory Passages. 
James. 
1885. 
Asiatic Cholera Wendt. 
! Climatology and Mineral Waters Bell. 
Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord. 
Gowers 
Diseases of the Lungs See. 
Ej>ilepsy Gowers. 
Handbook of Physiology, 2 vols Kirke. 
Human Osteology Holden. 
Poisons: Their Effects and Antidotes, 2 vols. 
Blyth 
Renal and Urinary Affections Dickinson. 
Wasting Diseases of Infants anil Children. 
Smith. 
1886. 
j Blood, Nutrition, and Infectious Diseases. 
Eichhorst. 
Diseases of the Circulatory and Respiratory 
Ajrparatus Eichhorst. 
Diseases of the Digestive, Urinary, and Sexual 
A pparatus Eichhorst. 
Diseases of the Lungs and Pleurae, Powell. 
Diseases of the Nerves, Muscles, anil Skin. 
Eichhorst. 
Diseases of the Spinal Cord Brain well. 
Diseases of the Stomach, Intestines, etc. 
Dujardin-Beaumetz. 
Electrolysis Amory. 
Hippocrates, Works of, 2 vols Adams. 
Insanity 1 Blanford. 
Rheumatism Maclagan. 
1887. 
A Text-book of Pathological Anatomy, ml. 3. 
Ziegler. 
This volume was published in 1887 to 
! complete the work, and is the last volume 
of the “ Library.” MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
113 
251. CONTENTS OF TOOL CHEST. 
(In chest with hasp hiuges, corners with angle irons, handle on each end, lock 
and key.) 
1 awl, brad, and handle, 1 by inch wide. 
1 awl, brad, and handle, 1% by inch wide. 
1 awl, brad, and handle, 2 by T3g inch wide. 
1 awl, scratch, cast steel, 8-inch. 
1 bit, auger, cast steel, yk-inch. 
1 bil, auger, cast steel, %-inch. 
1 bit, auger, cast steel, 1-inch. 
1 bit, gimlet, double cut, No. 1, cast steel. 
1 bit, gimlet, double cut, No. 2, cast steel. 
1 bit, gimlet, double cut, No. 3, cast steel. 
1 bit, screwdriver, extra cast steel, polished. 
1 brace, Spofford's nickel, improved, 7-inch 
sweep. 
t chalk line, soft, with reel and awl, complete. 
1 chisel, firmer, cast-steel socket, %-iyich. 
1 chisel, firmer, cast-steel socket, 1-inch. 
1 chisel, firmer, cast-steel socket, 1%-inch. 
1 divider, with set screw, solid cast steel, 8-inch. 
1 drawing knife, carpenter's, oval blade, 
10-inch. 
lfile, handsaw, with handle, 3 inches long. 
1 file, handsaw, with handle, 4 inches long. 
1 file, handsaw, with handle, 4)\> inches long, 
lfile, bastard, flat, with handle, 10 inches long. 
1 gimlet, double cut, wooden hawlle, No. 1. 
1 gimlet, double cut, wooden handle, No. 2. 
1 gimlet, double cut, wooden handle, No. 3. 
1 gauge, marking, beechwood, with set screw. 
1 hammer, nail, adz-eye, cast steel. 
1 hatchet, shingling. 
1 mallet, carpenter's, mortised handle, 5 inches 
long. 
1 nail puller, larye. 
1 nail set, square, polished, solid cast steel, 
/t-inch. 
1 nails, box of, steel wire, assorted (“Sol- 
omon Gundy”). 
1 nippers, plier and cutting, combined, 6-inch. 
1 oiler, zinc, No. 2. 
1 oilstone ( Washita), 1% lbs. 
1 pinchers, carpenter's, steel jaw, 10-inch. 
1 plane, fore, double iron. 
1 plane, jack, double iron. 
1 plane, rabbet, double iron. 
1 plane, smoothing, double iron. 
1 plane, hollow, No. 10. 
1 plane, rounding, No. 10. 
1 rasp, wood, oval, with handle, 10 inches 
long. 
1 rule, boxwood, square joints, 8ths and 16ths, 
1 inch wide, 2-foot. 
I saw, hand, 26-inch. 
1 saw, panel, 16-inch. 
1 saw, rip. 
1 screw-driver, solid cast steel, 3-inch. 
1 screw-driver, solid cast steel, 5-inch. 
1 screw, hand, 8-inch. 
1 screw wrench, wrought bar, 10-inch.. 
1 spirit level, pocket, iron top plate, japanned. 
1 spokeshace, wood, 3-inch. 
1 try square, rosewood, graduated, steel blade, 
9-inch. 
1 vise, bench, and iron. 
252. 
Ammonias spiritus aromaticus, 
First-aid packets no 
6 
in flask with cup c. c 
60 
Jackknife and saw blade no 
1 
Bandages, gauze, sterilized _.no_ 
Case, containing pins, common 
6 
Rubber bandage _ . no 
Splints, wire gauze for, in 
1 
and safety, scissors anil dress- 
roi 1 j yd 
1 
ing forceps no 
1 
Surgical plaster __ spool 
1 
CONTENTS OF HOSPITAL-CORPS POUCH 
253. 
CONTENTS OF ORDERLY POUCH. 
Ammonia; spiritusaromaticus, 
Ligatures, silk, sterilized, 3 
in flask with cup - c. c 
GO 
sizes _ - pkgs 
6 
Bandages, gauze, sterilized no 
6 
Mist, chloroformi et opii, in 
Case, pocket— no- 
1 
case, fluid or tablets c. c ■ 
30 
Chloroform, in case _ gms 
100 
Pins, common and safety, of 
Catheter, Eng., rubber, in box_no_ 
1 
each _ paper 
1 
Diagnosis tags and pencil book- 
1 
Rubber bandar)e no 
1 
First-aid packets _ no 
4 
Scissors - - t;o 
1 
Gauze, sublimated,l-m.pieces.no- 
4 
Splints,wire gauze for,in rolLnoJ 
1 
Jackknife, with saw blade _ no 
1 
Surgical plaster -spool | 
1 
Ligatures, catgut, sterilized, 
3 sizes . . -pkgs 
6 
Syringe, hypodermic _ no 
1 
Note.—Syringe, hypodermic, contains tablets of morphine- sulpli., strychnina, apo- 
morphina, and digitalinum. 
Pocket case contains in pocket, snrgeon’s needles, silver wire, silk and silkworm 
gut ligatures. 
8535—15 114 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
254. CONTENTS OF MEDICAL CHEST, U. S. ARMY (No. I). 
A list of contents is stamped on morocco pad, which is carried, reversed, under the 
cover of chest. 
Contents of Tray. 
Right of Tray. 
Tablets in 60-c. c. bottles. 
Left of Tray. 
324 
Tablets in 120-c. c. bottles. 
Acidum tannicum mgms. 
324 
200 
0.1 
324 
324 
324 
324 
324 
Hydrarg. chi. mite cum 
Magnesii* sulphas, in bulk 
324 
65 
324 
8 
Quininse sulphas (2 botts)_mgms_ 
200 
65 
324 
324 
130 
324 
324 
Potassii iodidum ...mgms 
324 
324 
324 
Acidum arsenosum mgm. 
1 
And 1 empty bottle. 
Argeuti nitras fusus grams. 
15 
32 
Cupri arsenis mgni 
0.325 
0.8 
Contents of Drawers. 
Drawer No. 1. 
Hypodermic Tablets. 
Hydrargyri iodidum flavum, 
10 
130 
mgms_ 
Ergot inuin _mgms 
Apomorphinae hydrochloras, 
0.006 
Podophylli resina mgms. 
16 
32 
Atropina; sulphas mgm 
Cocaiurn hydrochloras mgms. 
0.65 
10 
And 2 empty bottles. 
Digitalinum mgm 
Morphium sulphas mgms 
1 
8 
Nitroglyceriuum. . _ mgm. 
0.65 
Quininse hydrochloras mgms. 
32 
1 
And 1 empty bottle. 
Aqua ammonia* bott 
1 
Ophthalmic Disci. 
2 
Oleum terebintbina* _bott 
1 
Atropinte sulphas, 0.13 
1 
1 
2 
mgm., 50 in box . box 
Spiritus vini gallici botts 
Center of Tray. 
Physos igmina; sulphas, 
0.0324 mgm., 50 in box box. 
Miscellaneous. 
1 
Envelopes, small, for tablets..no. 
100 
Caustic holder, rubber . no 
1 
Graduate glass, 60-r. c _ no 
1 
Corkscrew, folding no. 
1 
50 
2 
Measure, graduated, 5-c. c no. 
1 
Pencil, indelible . no 
1 
Ointment boxes, in nests of 
Pencil, indelible, leads for no. 
6 
4 
12 
Pocket store . _ no 
1 
Syringe, hypodermic no 
1 
1 
1 
Vials, 00-c.c no. 
10 
Tongue depressor no MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
115 
CONTENTS OF MEDICAL CHEST, U. S. ARMY (No. l)-Cont’d 
Contents of Drawers— 
Cont’d. 
Drawer No. 4. 
Drawer No. 2. 
Beef extract, in 100-gm. tins_tins_ 
5 
Bandages, suspensory _ 
Flannel, red 
no 
meter 
5 
1 
Jute, or equivalent, 1( 0-gm. 
pkgs _ - - _ pkgs 
6 
Jute, or equivalent, in 100- 
Drawer No. 5. 
gm. pkg3 
pkgs. 
4 
1 
Bandages, roller, assorted uo- 
Cotton, absorbent, 100-gm. 
30 
Drawer No. 3. 
Book, prescription 
_ _ no 
1 
pkgs - - pkgs 
4 
225 
Forceps, dressing, for removing 
1 
Drawer No. 6. 
Index of Medicine (Carpen- 
1 
4 
Plaster, blistering 
meter 
1 
Candles no 
15 
Plaster, mustard 
Reagent case 
.meters 
4 
Corks, for asther cans no 
<) 
no 
1 
Corks, extra, for bottles no 
0 
Scissors . _ 
no 
1 
Cupping tins _ _ no 
4 
Spatula 
no 
1 
Links, split, for pack saddle uo_ 
4 
Spoon, tea 
no 
1 
Stethoscope, li. r _ 
no 
1 
Drawer No. 7. 
Syringes, p., h. r . __ .... 
no 
5 
Syringe, o., g.. in wooden 
Gauze, plain, 2-meter pack- 
case 
no 
3 
ages .. -pkgs 
4 
1 
Lint, absorbent, 100-gm. 
pkgs pkgs 
Towels 
no. 
2 
4 
255. CONTENTS OF SURGICAL CHEST, U. S. ARMY (No. 2). 
A list of contents is stamped on morocco pad, which is carried, reversed, under the 
cover of the chest. 
i 
TABLETS IN 1ZU-C. C. J50TTLES. 
Acidum boricum __ mgms 
324 
Razor strop _ 
Tumbler : 
no 
i 
i 
Contents of Drawers 
Drawer No. 1. 
Bandages, rubber _ 
Potassii bromidum 
mgms 
324 
_no 
1 
1 
IN zoO-GM. T50TTLES. 
2 
Acidum carbolicum 
_ bott 
1 
Goggles 
no 
2 
1 
Glycerinum 
Opii tinctura 
_ bott 
bott 
1 
Id 
Ligature, catgut, sterilized 
spools. 
1 
15 
iEtlier, in 100-gm. tins 
Bucket, folding, canvas 
tins. 
_ no 
5 
1 
6 
Needles, thread,etc.,in case.case. 
Pencil, indelible, leads for no. 
i 
0 
1 
Corks, for aether cans 
Corks, extra, for bottles 
Dressing paper 
Felt for splints 
Muslin _ __ 
no_ 
no 
roll 
pieces 
meters 
G 
6 
1 
2 
3 
Pins, safety, assorted _ . doz 
Speculum, for ear and nose no. 
Tape . _ piece 
Tape measure . _ .no. 
Tourniquet {Esmarch's) __ _ no. 
4 
1 
1 
1 
1 116 
CONTENTS OF SURGICAL CHEST, U. S. ARMY (No. 2)—Cont’d. 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
Drawer No. 2. 
Case, tooth-extracting . 
Cotton, absorbent 
Drainage tubes, rubber 
Links, split, for pack saddle 
no 
pkgs 
meters. 
no. 
.spools. 
..spool. 
_ bags 
1 
2 
3 
4 
4 
Razor . 
Scissors. 
S nr g e r y, operative, 
(Smith's) 
Syringes, p., h. r. . 
no. 
_no 
copy 
no 
i 
i 
1 
2 
1 
Plaster, adhesive, 30-mm_ 
Sponges, in bags, 
1 
2 
1 
Drawer No. 4, 
4 
Tags, diagnosis _ 
Drawer No. 3. 
Bandages, roller 
..book 
doz 
1 
3 
2 
Bandages, roller . . do/. 
Emergency case, complete no. 
Drawer'No. 5. 
l 
1 
4 
Beef extract, in 100-gin. tins.tins. 
Brush, shaving. _ no 
1 
1 
2 
Jute, or equivalent, 100-gm 
pkgs 
pkgs. 
G 
1 
Measure, graduated, 5-c. c 
Medicine measuring glass 
1 
225 
no. 
1 
1 
Drawer No. 6. 
Needle holder (Tiemami's) 
Needle, upholsterer’s 
no 
.no 
1 
1 
1 
Bandages, roller. 
Haemostatic forceps, in case 
no 
__no_ 
G 
12 
2 
Plaster, isinglass 
meters. 
9 
Ti-ai/s, for instruments 
no 
2 
256. 
CONTENTS OF MESS CHEST (No. 3). 
Basin, wash, hand, agate ware 
no_ 
i 
Matches, in waterproof case, boxes. 
12 
Boiler, double, aqale ware 
no 
Meat cutter, small 
no 
1 
6 
2 
Box for salt _ 
.no 
1 
Mill, coffee _ 
no 
l 
Box for pepper _ 
.no_ 
1 
Nails, assorted _ 
kilos. 
2 
Brush, scrubbing 
.no 
1 
Pan, frying, steel 
no 
1 
Can openers 
.no. 
2 
Pans, mess, agate ware 
no. 
Cleaver_ 
.no 
1 
Pan, sauce, steel, tinned inside 
Cookbook, Army _ 
.no 
1 
with cover 
no 
1 
Cups, coffee, agate ware . 
C 
Plates, dinner, agate ivare 
no_ 
fi 
Cup, large, aqale ware . . 
.no 
1 
Pot, coffee, agate ware_ . 
no 
1 
IHpper, aqale ware _ 
_no 
1 • 
Pot, lea. agate ware 
no 
1 
Crater, nutmeg 
.no 
1 
Rope, 6-nim 
meters. 
15 
Gridiron . . - 
.110 
1 
Sickle 
no 
1 
Hatchet . 
no 
1 
Spoon, hasting, agate ware 
no_ 
1 
Kettles, steel, nested, with covers 
_no_ 
3 
Spoons, table 
no_ 
6 
Knife, butcher — __ 
.no 
1 
Spoons, tea 
__ no 
6 
Knife and fork, carving, if each 
_no_ 
1 
Steel — 
_110 
1 
Knife and sair, combined . 
.110 
1 
Towels, crash 
no 
G 
Knives and forks, of each . 
_no 
6 
Tray, metal, japanned 
_ no i 
i 
Ladle, agate ware- _ 
no 
1 
Tumblers, agate ware_ 
_ no 
6 
Lantern, candle_ 
.no 
1 
Wire — 
coil 
1 
257. 
CONTENTS OF FOOD CHEST (No. 4). 
Beef extract or an equivalent prepara- 
tion. 
Candles. 
Condensed milk, in original cans, 4 kilos. 
Soap. 
Vinegar, in 1-liter wicker-covered bot- 
tles, 2 bottles. 
Yeast powder, in %-kilo. original cans. 
Tins for the following articles: 
l$eans. 
Butter. 
Coffee. 
Sal t and pepper. 
Sugar (2 tins). 
Tea. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
117 
258. 
CONTENTS OF COMMODE CHEST (No. 5). 
Bedpan, agate ware _ _ 
__ no_ 
1 
Spit cup, agate ware _ _ 
no 
i 
Chamber pot, agate ware _ 
no 
1 
Urinal, agate ware 
_ _no 
i 
Paper, toilet 
pkgs 
6 
Books. 
Blanks. 
Army Regulations 
copy 
i 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
Drill Regulations for the Has- 
vital Corps 
- copy 
i 
Examination of recruits, 
Handbook for the Hospital Corps, 
monthly report _ _ no 
4 
Smart 
copy 
i 
Hospital-tund statement no. 
4 
Information slip book 
copy 
i 
Medical property, return of-no_ 
2 
Information slip book, deser- 
Medical supplies, invoice of, 
tions_ 
—copy. 
i 
single sheet no 
G 
Morning Keport, Hospital 
Medical supplies, receipt for, 
Corps 
-copy 
i 
single sheet . .. no 
G 
Morning Report, sick 
and 
Medical supplies, special req- 
i 
8 
Order and letter book 
copy 
■ i 
Report of sick and wouuded.no. 
12 
Register and prescription 
Report of compleied cases no. 
12 
book 
copy- 
i 
Return of personnel, etc., 
Manual for the Medical Depart- 
H. (1. ...no 
6 
meat 
copy- 
i 
Transfer book 
— copy 
i 
SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT, 
Stationery. 
Ration returns _ _ _ no. 
12 
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. 
Book, blank, 8 mo. 
no 
i 
Elastic bands, assorted __ 
__gross _ 
XA 
Invoices .no 
2 
Envelopes, official, large 
- - no 
12 
Quarterly statements .no 
2 
Envelopes, official, letter 
no 
50 
Receipts no 
2 
Envelopes, official, note 
no 
25 
Eraser, steel 
no 
1 
adjutant-general’s depart- 
Ink, black _ __ 
botts 
2 
MENT. 
Ink, red 
bott 
1 
Inkstands 
_ no. 
2 
Certificates of disability no 
2 
Mailing tubes 
no 
4 
Descriptive lists no 
2 
Pad, letter 
no. 
1 
Discharges . _ . .no 
2 
4 
4 
2 
Paper fasteners .. 
_ _no._ 
12 
Inventory of effects ot de- 
1 
2 
Paper, writing, letter 
qrs 
2 
Muster rolls no 
8 
Paper, writing, note 
. qr 
1 
Outline-figure cards no 
6 
Pencils, lead . 
no 
4 
Pay rolls . no 
12 
Pens, steel _ _ 
no. 
12 
Physical examination of re- 
Penholders _ 
no 
2 
cruits, form for no 
G 
Rubber 
piece 
1 
Surgeon’s certificate of dis- 
Ruler 
no 
1 
ability for officers no 
2 
259. 
CONTENTS OF FIELD DESK (No. 6). 
In food chest (No. 4) considerable vacant space is left in order to allow latitude to 
each medical officer as to the exact character of the supplies lie may wish to carry. 
The printed plan inside the cover gives the general arrangement. 
Tins labeled “cornstarch,” “chocolate,” and “arrowroot,” are included, 
although not mentionedin the official list of contents, as itis thoughtthat they may 
contain articles of more general use. 118 
MANUAL FOE THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
260. 
A set consists of— 
FOLDING FIELD FURNITURE. 
Chair, arm, folding 
no_ 
1 ' 
Table, mess, folding 
_no 
i 
('hairs, small, folding 
__ no 
10 
Tables, bedside, folding 
no 
in 
Cots, adjustable, folding 
no. 
10 ! 
261 
PACK SADDLE. 
The new pack saddle, issued for use with the medical and surgical chests, at present 
consists of— 
1 tree, with pads and latigos. 
1 breast strap. 
1 breeching harness. 
1 crupper. 
3 girths. 
3 ropes, leather-tipped. 
1 surcingle. 
1 halter and watering bridle (complete). 
3 saddle blankets. 
3 canvas covers for medical and surgical chests. 
4 split links are carried in each medical and surgical chest for attaching them at 
varying heights to the pack saddle. 
262. 
OUTFIT OF SCHUEHLE ICE MACHINE AS PER LATEST 
CONTRACT. 
Ice machine, complete, Jacob Schuehle’s patent, capacity 3,000 pounds in 24 
hours, consists of— 
1 double ammonia compressor. 
1 steam engine. 
1 boiler, 20-horsepower, complete, with feed pump. 
1 ammonia condenser. 
1 fa-inch boiler-steel freezing tank, incased in 1-inch pine flooring, with the requisite 
number of ice cans 
1 steam condenser, capacity sufficient to furnish in 24 hours distilled water for 3,000 
pounds of ice. 
1 brine pump. 
1 patent oil eliminator. 
1 side-feeql lubricator. 
300 fire brick. 
Bedplate, necessary pipes, gauges, valves, connections, etc. 
Anhydrous ammonia and lubricating oil sufficient to run the machine for two 
years. 
In most cases additional or improved parts have been purchased for these 
machines, and this list can be considered as approximate only. The ammonia drum 
or cylinder is a container of the ammonia furnished by contract, and unless purchased 
from the ice fund does not form a part of the Schuehle machine, being returned 
when a fresh drum of ammonia is received. The Wood-Bailie machine, of which 
two are now in use, has an ammonia drum as part of the original machine. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
119 
For convenient reference the following lists are appended, 
although the articles are not issued by the Medical Depart- 
ment : 
263. ISSUED BY THE QUARTERMASTER’S DEPARTMENT. 
A mbulance. 
Ambulance, harness for. 
Ax. 
Clothing, uniforms, etc. 
Cooking utensils. 
Dippers. 
Flags* 
Gas fixtures. 
Handcart. 
Hatchet. 
Ladder. 
Lamps, bracket. 
Lamps, hanging. 
Jjockers. 
Piping for ranges and stoves. 
Range and fixtures. 
Shovel. 
Shelter for meteorological 
instruments. 
Spade. 
Stoves, healing. 
Tentage, etc. 
Travois. 
Wheelbarrow. 
Wood saw. 
*See A. R. 214-. 
264. 
ISSUED BY THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. 
Canteen. 
Canteen strap. 
Cup, tin. 
Fork. 
Haversack. 
Haversack strap. 
Knife. 
Meat can. 
Revolver.* 
Rifle, Springfield, M. L. f 
Shotgun, 
Shotgun, reloading outfit .* * 
Spoon. 
Waist belt. 
Waist-belt plate. 
♦Revolvers will be obtained from the commanding officer for service in an Indian 
country, when necessary. 
f The issue of two Springfield muzzle-loading rifles to each military post for com- 
pany bearers’ drill is authorized. Decision Acting Secretary of War, 1888. 
| “Upon requisition of the Surgeon (through the usual military channels), duly 
approved by the Surgeon General, the Ordnance Department will issue, for use at 
posts west of the Mississippi River, a shotgun, with necessary appendages and ammu- 
nition, for the use of members of the Hospital Corps.” Decision Chief of Ordnance, 
1889. 
♦♦The reloading outfit of the shotgun consists of the following. Expendable 
articles may be replaced by annual requisition upon the Chief Ordnance Officer of 
the Department: 
Canister, tin, for powder, %-lb—no 1 
Canister, tin, for powder, 5-lb no 1 
Cartridge primers no. 1,000 
Cartridge shells, 20-gauge no 50 
Funnel _ .no . 1 
Gun wads, No. 18, pink edge no_2, U00 
Packing box . no 1 
Powder, musket lbs 7 
Cotton waste lbs 120 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
FIELD SUPPLY TABLE. 
OUTFIT AND ALLOWANCE FOR SIX MONTHS FOR ONE THOUSAND 
MEN. 
[.Articles in Italics are not Expendable.] 
265. 
Top Drawer. 
Left. 
In 120-c. c. bottles. 
Ammonii chloridi trochiscl bott. 
Camphora bott 
Glycyrrhizse mist. comp. 
1 
1 
1 
Argenti nitras fusus bott 
Caffeina citrata, tablets bott. 
Cannabis indicw tinctura, 
tablets . -bott. 
Capsicum, tablets _ bott- 
Coeairue hydrocliloras,bypod. 
tablets _ bott 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Linimentum rubefaciens, tab- 
lets _ ___ -bott 
Pilulse carmiuativse bott 
Pilulae catharticas compos- 
itte _ _ bott_ 
Potassii bromidum, tablets_.bott_ 
Quinina? sulphas, pills bott. 
Sodii bicarbonas, tablets bott- 
Sodii bicarb, et mentliae pip. 
1 ’ 
1 
Cupri arsenis, tablets 
Digitalis tinctura, tablets 
Ergotinum, tablets 
.botts. 
-botts. 
bott 
2 
2 
1 
1 
1 
l 
1 
1 
Hydrarg. chlor. mite cum 
sodii bicarb., tablets _ botts 
Hydrarg. iodidum flavuni, 
tablets _ _ bott 
Hyoscyami pilulse compos- 
3 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Warburg’s tincture, pills 
(1 pill—1 drachm) bott 
Right. 
In 60-c. c. bottles. 
Acidum tannicum . bott 
Antipyrinum, tablets bott, 
Bismuthi subgallas - bott_ 
Bismuthi subnitras bott 
bott 
1 
1 
Oleum tiglii, tablets . 
bott 
1 
2 
1 
! 
i 
i 
Plumbi acetas, tablets botts. 
Podophylli resina. tablets bott 
Quininaj bydrocliloras,hypod. 
tablets _ bott- 
Strychnin* sulphas, tablets.bott. 
Sulphonal, tablets bott- 
2 
1 
1 
l 
1 
1 
Collodium _ -bott 
Ferri chloridi tinctura bott 
Hydrargyri massa, tablets --bott 
Iodum bott 
i 
i 
i 
i 
i 
Rear Compartment 
Four tin cans. 
Magnesii sulphas 
kilos 
2* 
2i 
u 
1 
is 
4 
1 
1 
Ipecacuanha et opium, tab- 
lets . bott 
Morphinae sulphas, tablets- iiott 
Phenacetinum, tablets . . _.bott- 
Pilula; camph. et opii bott 
Potassii arsenitis liquor - bott 
Potassii iodidum, tablets bott 
Potassii permanganas bott 
Said, tablets _ -bott 
i 
i 
i 
i 
i 
i 
I 
i 
Potassii et sodii tartras kilos. 
Sinapis nigra - - kilos 
Acidum nitricum, 30 c. c., in 
wooden case .bott 
Bandages, gauze, 3 sizes no 
Bandages, suspensory. _ no. 
Belladonna; emplastrum, in 
2-meter tin tin 
Cantharidis emplastrum, in 
Veratri viridis tinctura bott. 
Zinci sulphas, tablets - hot; 
Small Drawer at Right of 
Lower Drawer. 
In 15-c. c. bottles. 
Acidum arsenosum, tablets bott_ 
i 
i 
Gauze, sublimated _ __ 
Plaster, adhesive, 1-in 
Plaster, isinglass _ 
pkgs. 
—spool 
tin 
6 
1 
1 
1 
i 
i 
Sinapis emplastrum, in4-me- 
ter tins . .tins. 
Sponges, compressed cotton box. 
2 
1 
6 
Aloini pilube comp botts 
Ammonii carbonas bott 
Argeuti nitras, in crystals - bott 
2 
1 
1 
Tooth-extracting case _ no. 
Vials, 1 doz. 30-c. c., 1 doz. 
fiO-c. c doz. 
1 
MEDICAL CHEST (No. I). MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
121 
MEDICAL CHEST (No. I)—Continued. 
Center of Drawer. 
i 
Hypodermicsyringe,extra needle 
for . __ no 
Hypodermic syringe, extra wires 
for _ .. bdle 
1 
Corkscrew _ 
TJO 
1 
2 
1 
6 
Cup 
_ no 
1 
1 
Pencils, camel’s-hair no 
6 
1 
1 
2 
Measures, graduated glass, 100-c. c. 
(in case) no 
Medicine glass (in cup) no 
1 
1 
1 
Lower Drawer. 
Left. 
In 235-c. c. bottles. 
1 
Pill boxes, small 
Spatula 
Tongue depressor. . 
doz. 
no 
DO 
2 
1 
1 
1 
Acidum carbolicum .bott 
Acidum sulph. aromat. bott. 
iEther spiritus compositus__bott_ 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Small Drawer at Right of 
Upper Drawer. 
Hypodermic tablets, 5-c.c. botts.: 
Apomorph. hydrochloras bott. 
Atropina* sulphas bott. 
Oocainas hydrochloras. bott 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Alcohol bott. 
Ammoniae aqua _ bott 
Ammonia; spirit, aromat bolt. 
Brandy .. .bott. 
Glycerinum _ .... _ butt. 
Oleum terebinthinae bott. 
Squibbs mixture _. bott 
Tinctura opii camphorata__bott. 
Probangs .. . _ no 
Sponge holders for throat no. 
Right. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
Hyoscinas hydrobromas. 
Morph in as sulphas 
—bott_ 
bott. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
Strychnina; sulphas _ 
Amyl nitris (5-drop pearls) 
box 
('linical thermometers 
1 [gpodermic syringe 
tubes. 
12 in 
box. 
no 
no 
3 
1 
1 
2 
1 
Copaibas pilula; comp botts 
Specidum, rectal _ . no. 
Stethoscope, double no 
Test tubes . no 
Tape measure ._ no 
2 
1 
1 
6 
1 
266. 
MEDICAL CHEST (No. 2). 
Upper Drawer. 
Rear Compartment. 
2 
1 
Bat/s, rubber, ice, for head _ 
no 
1 
Acidum tannicum, in 25-gm. 
Bournes and catheters, 0 of each, in 
bottles -botts 
4 
box, _ — 
box. 
L 
Antipyriuum, 324-mgm. tablets 
1 
(200 in bottle) botts. 
2 
Towels 
no 
6 
Bismuthi subgallas, in 250-gm. 
3 
2 
Bismuthi subnitras, in 500-gm. 
Lower Drawer. 
bottles _ botts 
6 
Capsicum, 32-mgm. tablets (150 
1 
4 
Hygiene, Natter and Firth 
no 
1 
Hydrargyri chloridum mite cum 
Medicine, Practice of, Osier 
no 
1 
sodii bicarb., tablets (200 in 
Surgery, operative, ZuckerkancU 
__no_ 
1 
bottle) _ botts. 
0 
Surgery, wounds in tear, Stephenson, 
Ipecacuanhas et opii pulvis, 324- 
no_ 
1 
mgm. tablets <200 in bott.)_bott. 
1 
Therapeutics, Hare 
no.. 
1 
Morphinse sulphas, 8-mgm. tab- 
Tropical Diseases, Manson 
no 
2 
lets (100 in bottle) botts 
6 
8535 If. 122 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
MEDICAL CHEST (No. 2)—Continued. 
Phenacetinum, 324-mgm. tablets 
(200 in bottle) _ botts 
2 
Potassii bromidum,324-mgm. tab- 
lets, in SoO-gm. bottles botts. 
2 
Pilula; camphor* et opii, or tab- 
lets (200 in bottle) _ botts 
4 
Quininse sulphas, 200-mgm. pills 
(500 in bottle). _ _ .botts 
G 
Pilul* cathartics' com posits:, or 
6 
Strychnin® sulphas, 1-mgin. tab- 
2 
1 
Podophylli resina, 16-mgm. tab- 
4 
Sulphoual, 324-mgm. tablets (200 
267. 
Some of these bottles may be packed in the drawers. 
HOSPITAL CORPS POUCH. 
(One for each private of the Hospital Corps.) 
268. 
See paragraph 252. 
ORDERLY POUCH 
(One for each Medical Officer’s Orderly.) 
269. 
See paragraph 253. 
POCKET CASE 
Bistoury, curved, probe-pointed _no_ 
1 
Needle, aneurism, 
no 
i 
Bistoury, straight _ _ .no. 
1 
Needle, exploring _ 
_ no 
i 
Catheter, plated _ no. 
1 
Needles, surgeon's, 
no 
12 
1 
1 
Director with myrtle leaf no_ 
1 
Scalpel . _ _ 
_no 
1 
Forceps, dissecting, mouse-tooth . no. 
1 
Scissors, straight 
_no 
1 
Forceps, haemostatic and needle. _uo_ 
1 
Silkworm gut . 
1 
1 
1 
Forceps, hemostatic, long no 
1 
Case, leather _ 
1 
1 
1 
270. 
FIELD CASE. (SURGEON'S.) 
(One for each Medical Officer.) 
Bistoury, curved, probe-pointed _no_ 
1 
Knife, amputating no 
1 
Bistoury, straight, sharp-pointed_no_ 
1 
Needle, aneurism . no 
1 
Case, mahogany no 
1 
Needles dozen 
1 
Catheter, male, plated . no 
1 
Pouch, leather, with sling strap, no. 
Probe, silver, with Nelaton's tip.no. 
1 
Directory grooved, with myrtle 
1 
leaf _ no 
1 
Saw, amputating, lifting back __no_ 
1 
Forceps, bone, open box joint, cor- 
Saw, metacarpal ... _ no 
1 
rngaied handles, scooped out no_ 
1 
Scalpel no. 
1 
Forceps, bullet and dressing, com- 
bined no 
1 
Scissors, curved on flat, with Col- 
lins' lock __no 
1 
Forceps, dissecting, mouse-tooth .no. 
1 
Scissors, light knee bent, with C<d- 
Forceps, haemostatic and needle .no. 
1 
lilts' lock _ no 
1 
Heemostats, “baby ” no 
2 
Silk _ _ cards. 
2 
Handles, hard-rubber, for knife and 
Silkworm gut (20 strands)..coil. 
1 
2 
1 
Horse hair, black. coil 
1 MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
123 
271. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
i 
2 
Lanterns 
no 
2 
A renewal of supplies can be obtained by regimental surgeons from the surgeon 
in charge of a brigade or division hospital upon a special requisition approved by 
the chief surgeon. No receipt is to be given for expendable articles. 
272. 
Medicines. 
Capsici tinctura, in 100 c. c. bot- 
ties botts 
4 
Acidium arsenosum, 1-mgm. tab- 
Chloral, in 50-gm. g. s. bo ttles, 
lets (125 in bottle) botts 
3 
botts. 
2 
Acidum boricum, 324-mgm. tab- 
< 'b lorofofmum, in 100-gm. g. s. 
2 
48 
Acidum carbolicum, in 250-gm. 
Cocainse hydrochloras, 10-mgm. 
bottles _ . botts 
10 
hypodermic tablets, in 15-c. c. 
Acidum nitricum, tu 250-c. c. g. s. 
bottles _ botts 
5 
bottler bott. 
1 
Codeina, in 32-mgm. tablets, 100 
Acidum sulphuricum aromati- 
in bottle . botts 
2 
cum, in 250-c. c. g. s. bottles, 
Collodium, in 25-c.c. bottl es_ hotts. 
10 
botts. 
10 
Copaibfe pi In be comp, or tablets 
Aconiti tinctura, 0.1-c. c. tablets 
(500 in bottle) . _ botts 
6 
(200 in bottle i botts 
5 
Digitalinum, in 1-mgm. hypoder- 
20 
2 
iEtberis spiritus compositus, in 
Digitalis tinctura, 0.3-c. c. tablets 
2 
10 
iEtheris spiritus nitrosi, in 500- 
Emplastrum ferri (porous), in 
c. c. bottles _ botts 
5 
boxes of 24 _____ boxes 
4 
Alcohol, in 1-liter bottles__botts. 
24 
Ergotinum, 130-mgm. tablets 
Ammonia! aqua, 10 p. c., in 500- 
(200 in bottle) botts 
2 
c. c. g. s. bottles botts 
10 
Ferri chloridi tinctura, in 500- 
Ammonite spiritus aromaticus, 
c. c. g. s. bottles _ _botts 
4 
in 250-c. c. bottles botts 
6 
Ferri pilulse composite; (200 in 
Ammonii carbonas, in 250-gm. 
bottle) _ -botts 
10 
bottles _ _ botts 
3 
Glycerinum, in 500-c. c. bottles, 
Ammonii chloridi trochisci (100 
botts_ 
10 
in bottle) botts 
10 
Glvcyrrhizas mistura composita, 
Amyl nitris (5-drop pearls), 12 in 
tablets (400 in bottle) botts_ 
10 
box _ boxes 
2 
Guaiacolis carbonas, in 250-gm. 
Antipyrinum, 324-mgm. tablets, 
bottles botts 
4 
in 125-gm. bottles botts 
10 
Hydrargyri chloridum mite, in 
Argenti nitras, in crystals, in 25- 
100-gm. bottles bott 
5 
gm. bottles bott 
1 
Hydrargyri iodidum flavum, 10- 
Argenti nitras fusus, in 25-gm. 
mgm. tablets (200 in bottle), 
bottles bott 
1 
botts_ 
10 
Atropinse sulphas, 0.65-mgm. by- 
Hydrargyri massa, 324-mgm tab- 
podermic tablets _ tubes 
2 
lets (125 in bottle) . botts 
5 
Belladonna! emplastrum, in 2- 
Hydrargyri unguentum, in 500- 
4 
2 
Bismuthi subnitras, in 500-gm. 
Hyoscyami pilube composita! (200 
bottles _ botts- 
10 
in bottle) botts 
2 
Caffeina citrata, in 65-mgm. tab- 
Ichthyolum, in 25-gm. bottles, 
lets, 100 in bottle botts 
2 
botts- 
4 
Oampbora, in 500-gm. bottles, 
Iodoformum, in 100-gm. bottles, 
botts- 
6 
botts. 
6 
Cantharidis emplastrum, in 1- 
Iodum, in 50-gm. g. s. bottles, 
meter tins tins. 
2 
botts. 
2 
FOR DIVISION OR DETACHED BRIGADE FIELD HOSPITAL. 124 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
FOR DIVISION OR DETACHED BRIGADE FIELD HOSPITAL-Continued. 
Ipecacuanha, 65-mgm. tablets 
I’otassii arsenitis liquor, in 250- 
5 
2 
Ipecacuanhae et opii pul vis, 324- 
Potassiibromidum, 324-mgm. tab- 
ingm. tablets (200 in bottle), 
lets, in 500-gm. bottles botts. 
G 
butts. 
5 
Potassii et sodii tartras (pulvis), 
Ipecacuanha! extractum fluidum, 
in 500-gm. bottles _ botts 
G 
in 250-c. c. bottles- botts. 
2 
Potassii iodidum, 324-mgm. tab- 
Linimentutn rubefaciens, tablets 
lets (200 in bottle). _ .botts 
5 
(50 in bottle) - botts 
10 
Potassii permanganas, in 50-gm. 
Magnesii sulphas, in 4-kilo, tins, 
bottles botts 
6 
tins. 
4 
Quininae hydrochloras, 32-mgm. 
Menthol, in 50-gm. bottles.botts. 
2 
hypodermic tablets .tubes 
10 
Morphinae sulphas, 8-ingm. tab- 
Quinines sulphas, 200-mgm. tab- 
lets (100 in bottle) botts 
2 
letsorpills (500 in bottle).botts. 
48 
Morphinae sulphas, 8-mgm. hypo- 
Salol, 324-mgm. tablets (125 in 
12 
15 
Nitroglycerinum, 0.65-mgm. by- 
Sinapis emplastrum, in 4-meter 
podermic tablets tubes 
2 
tins. . . tins. 
20 
Oleum menthae piperitae, in 100- 
Sinapis nigra (pulvis), in 500-gm. 
2 
Oleum ricini, in 1-liter bottles, 
Sodii bicarbonas, 324-mgm. tab- 
botts. 
24 
lets (200 in bottle) . _ botts 
24 
Oleum terebinthinae, in 1-liter 
Sodii bicarb, et mentha! pip., tab- 
6 
Oleum theobromatis, in 250-gm. 
Sodii boras (pulvis), in 500-gm. 
tins _ tins 
2 
bottles _ botts 
2 
Petrolatum spissum, 48.8 C., in 
Sodii sal icy las, 324-mgm. tablets 
2 
Phenacetinum, 324-mgm. tablets 
1 Strychnia sulph., tablets (500 in 
(100 in bottle) botts 
5 
bottle) _ botts. 
10 
Pilulae camphorae et opii, or tab- 
Veratri viridis tinctura, in 100- 
*10 
2 
Pilula; carminativae (200 in bot- 
Zinci oxidum, in 250-gm. bottles, 
tie) botts 
5 
botts. 
Pilula; catharticae composite, or 
Zinci sulphas, 324-mgm. tablets 
18 
5 
Plumbi acetas, 130-mgm. tablets 
Zingiberis extractum fluidum, in 
4 
4 
Potassa, in 25-gm. bottles bott. 
1 
273. 
ANTISEPTICS AND DISINFECTANTS. 
Antiseptic tablets, hydrarg. chlor. 
Mercury corrosive chlorid, in 
corros. (200 in bottle) bottS- 
10 
500-gm. bottles botts_ 
4 
Lime, clxlorid, in 500-gm. w. m. 
bottles _ botts 
48 
Tricresol, in 1-kilo. bottles_botts_ 
('» 
274. 
HOSPITAL STORES. 
Condensed milk cans 
48 
Soap, castile, or its equivalent, 
Beef extract, in 100-gm. tins or 
kilos_ 
4 
jars _ . tins 
48 
Sugar, white, in 6-kilo. tins, tins- 
2 
Brandy, in 1-iiter bottles botts. 
12 
Tea, in j.,-kilo. tins- tins 
5 
Malted milk __ ..bolts 
100 
Whisky, in 1-liter bottles botts. 
12 MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
125 
275. 
STATIONERY. 
Blank books, cap, 4-quire uo_ 
2 
Pads, prescription . 
_ - . no 
48 
Blank books, 8vo, 4-quire no. 
2 
Pads, letter 
no 
6 
Envelopes, official, letter no. 
400 
Paper, blotting 
_ qrs 
1 
Ink, writing, in 120-c. c. bottles 
Paper, writing, letter 
qrs 
-24 
botts_ 
4 
Pencils, lead . 
no 
12 
Ink, carmine, in 30-c. c. bottles 
Penholders . _ _ 
no 
6 
bott_ 
Mucilage - .. botts 
1 
2 
Pens, steel.- - 
.—gross 
1 
276. SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, APPLIANCES, AND DRESSINGS. 
Bandages, gauze, sterilized, 144 
Oakum or tow„ 
kilos 
10 
in box, 3 sizes 
_ gross 
12 
Pins, assorted 
papers 
10 
Bandages, plaster 
gross. 
1 
Pins, safety, 3 sizes 
iloz 
18 
Bandages, rubber, 4 
meters by 
Plaster, adhesive, on 
spools, 
33 nun 
no 
2 
1-inch 
no. 
24 
Bandages, suspensory no 
12 
Plaster, adhesive, on 
sp 00 Is, 
('one, emergency 
no. 
1 
2-inch 
no 
6 
Case, pocket 
no 
3 
Plaster, isinglass, in 
l-m e te r 
Cotton, absorbent, 
sterilized, in 
rolls 
meters 
4 
1-oz. pkgs 
_ kilos 
10 
Plaster of paris, in 2-kilo, tins 
Fi rst aid packets, as 
required_no_ 
kilos. 
10 
Gauze, sublimated, 
1-meter each 
in packages, 
pkgs. 
10 
500 
Silk, oiled, in 5-meter rolls 
Gauze, iodoform, in 
packages, |- 
meters. 
15 
meter each 
pkgs 
75 
Splints, wire for 
pcs 
30 
Ligatures, catgut, 
sterilized, in 
Sponges, compressed 
cotton, 4 
boxes 
packages, 3 sizes- 
1)0 
300 
dozen in box 
30 
Ligature,silk, sterilized, in pack- 
Thermometers, clinical 
no 
12 
ages, 3 sizes 
. no 
300 
Tourniquet, rubber Esmarch's_no_ 
4 
Muroscope 
no 
1 
Trusses, single 
no_ 
6 
Muslin, unbleached 
meters 
20 
277. 
FURNITURE, BEDDING, AND CLOTHING.* 
Basins, wash, hand, agate ware 
_no_ 
4 
Pillows, feather _ _ _ 
_no 
10 
Blanket cases _ 
no 
l(i 
Pillows, hair 
no 
50 
Blankets, gray __ 
no 
100 
Pillowcases, cotton 
_ _ no 
150 
1 
150 
Furniture, field, folding 
3ftS_ 
5 
Shirts, cotton _ _ _ 
no 
50 
50 
30 
Pajamas _ „ . _ 
.no 
100 
*For a division hospital the allowance under this heading may be doubled 
278. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bedpans, agate ware 
no 
2 
Buckets, agate, 3 in nest _ nest 
i 
ti 
2 
Boxes, powder 
_ doz 
6 
Chest, food 
_I10 
1 
Brooms 
_ no 
2 
Chests, medical (Nos. 1 and 2) 
of 
Brushes, for cleansing 
no 
6 
each - - 
-UO. 
1 
Buckets, liber or wood 
11 o_ 
4 
Chests, mess 
_no 
2 126 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
MISCELLANEOUS—Continued 
Chest, sterilizing _ _no 
1 
Lantern glasses, extra, red or 
Chests, surgical (Nos. 1 and 12), of 
white, as required 
uo_ 
each _ _ _ _ no 
1 
Lantern wicks, as required 
-__no_ 
Corks, assorted, in bags of 12 
Lanterns _ - - 
no 
3 
dozen _ - 
12 
Litters 
no 
10 
3 
25 
G 
4 
Cups, spit no 
3 
Paper, wrapping, brown 
__qrs 
2 
i 
Cushions, rubber, with open cen- 
Sponges, bath, large 
no 
2 
ter _ _ no_ 
2 
Svringes, penis, glass, in case_no_ 
30 
Dippers _ _no 
2 
Talcum (French chalk), 1 
kilo. 
Envelopes for tablets, 5 x 6 cm. 
packages 
kilos 
2 
doz_ 
50 
Test tubes _ _ 
no 
12 
1 
3 
Cables for vials gross 
1 
Vials, 30-c. c 
6 
279. 
Top Drawer. 
Left. 
Iu 120-c. c. bottles. 
Hydrarg. bichlor., tablets__botts_ 
2 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
100 
80 
2 
1 
1 
1 
4 
1 
1 
5 
l 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
j Gocainte hydrochloras . bott. 
Digitalinum _ _ bott 
; Nytroglycerinum _ bott 
Morphine; sulphas . bott 
Quinina; hydrochloras _ bott 
Strychnin* sulphas. . tubes. 
i 
i 
i 
i 
1 
3 
1 
3 
2 
3 
1 
1 
6 
2 
1 
3 
1 
1 
G 
36 
1 
36 
1 
12 
36 
12 
1 
Pil. camph. et opii - _ bott 
Pil. cath. comp bott 
Quin, sulph. 200-mgni. pills, bott. 
Salt, table - bott 
Sodii carbonas, tablets bott 
Sodiichloridum, etc., tablets.bott. 
In paper packets. 
Ligature, catgut, Nos. 1, 2, and 3. 
no. 
Ligature, silk, Nos. 1,2, and3_no_ 
Tubes, drainage, { and | inch of 
each £ meter ... no 
Right. 
Lower Drawer. 
Left. 
In 235-e. c. bottles. 
Acid, carbolic _ bott 
| Alcohol. botts 
Brandy _ botts 
! Chloroform . botts. 
Right. 
Basin, rubber... — no. 
Blank book . _ .no 
Brushes, hand, scrub no. 
Cylinders, rubber (intest, suture) 
no_ 
Corkscrew . no. 
Plaster, rubber, adh _ spools 
Pins, safety ... . . pkgs 
Scissors _ ... pair 
Soap, green, in tin _ _ _ lb 
Tags, diagnosis. -pkgs. 
Small Drawer at Right of 
Upper Drawer. 
Pencil, indelible _ .no 
Pencil, indelible, leads for box. 
Strop, razor _ no 
! Towels (in sterilizer). no 
Rear Compartment. 
Bandages, gauze, 2%, 3, and 
inches . .. _ .no. 
Case, field, operating no 
Cotton, absorbent, in 1-ounce 
packages . . .... .pkgs. 
Thermometer, clinical _ __ no 
Wire, silver coil 
Hypodermic tablets. 
Iu 5-c. c. bottles. 
Apomorphinas liydrochloras.bott. 
Atropime sulphas .bott 
Gauze, iodoform, in i-meter pack- 
ages . pkgs 
Gauze, sublimated, in 1-meter 
packages . . pkgs 
Sponges, cotton, compressed, 
large size. _ doz. 
Tourniquet, rubber, Esmarch's uo_ 
CONTENTS OF SURGICAL CHEST (No. I). MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
127 
280. 
SURGICAL CHEST (No. 2). 
Upper Drawer. 
Gauze, iodoform 
- I>kgs; 
12 
Gauze, sublimated, in 
1-meter 
Bandages, plaster, 2-inch 
_ no 
r> 
packages 
—pkgs. 
40 
Beef extract, Armour’s 
cans 
4 
Milk, condensed _ 
cans. 
4 
Rear Compartment. 
Pliers, cutting, for fixed bandages, 
no_ 
1 
6 
2i 
Sprinkler, iodoform_ 
no. 
1 
Tea - 
kilo. 
£ 
1 
21 
Tourniquet, rubber, Esmarch's— no. 
1 
Tricresol 
.liters 
2j 
Tow, in packages.pkgs. 
4 
Sugar 
kilos 
lj 
Cotton, absorbent, in 
1-ounce 
Lower Drawer. 
packages 
pkgs 
32 
Gauze wire 
rolls 
8 
Bandages, gauze, 3 sizes. 
no 
50 
Splints, wooden, veneer 
_ _ no 
6 
Chloroform, in 250-c. c. 
bottles, 
Sponges, cotton compressed, 4 
botts. 
4 
dozen in box 
doz 
20 
281. 
STERILIZER. 
Top Drawer. 
Right. 
Aprons, rubber no 
Bauds, rubber, in cases no 
24 
Matches, safety _ boxes 
Wicks pkg 
\ 
Cots, finger, in cases no 
Gloves, rubber, in cases - prs 
'l 
Rear Compartment. 
littbbe, bag and lube, for flushing 
Right. 
herkefeld filter 
Can for water 
Lower Drawer. 
Left. 
Upper part of petroleum stove 
MAIGNAN FILTER. 
In separate case. 
282. 
CONTENTS OF FIELD OPERATING CASE. 
Bistoury, curved,probe-pointed no. 
1 
Eye spud, Dix's .no 
1 
Bistoury, straight, sharp-pointed .no. 
1 
Forceps, bone-cutting, flat blade, 
Liston's _ no 
Box, ligature, with three spools no_ 
Buttons, Murphy's, 3 in set _set_ 
1 
1 
1 
Forceps, clamp, Keen's _ no 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Catheters, silver, Nos. 8 and 10-no_ 
2 
Forceps, dressing and bullet, For- 
wood's _ _ no 
Catheter staff,tunneled, Gouley's-UO- 
1 
1 
Catlin, medium, 5-inch blade no. 
1 
Forceps, haemostatic, curved no. 
3 
Chisel _ . . no 
1 
Forceps, hsemostatic, Jones' ,2-inch 
('lamps, intestinal, Mr Laurens's no 
2 
bite _ no 
I 
Depressor, tongue, icire, folding _no 
i 
Forceps, haemostatic, Penn's no_ 
Forceps, haemostatic, Wyeth'8 no_ 
3 
Director, grooved, ‘medium tio_ 
i 
1 
Drills, bone, in handle, set of 3.sot_ 
i 
Forceps, Rongeur and bone-holding, 
Forwood's no 
Earhook and spoon, Gross' no 
i I 
1 128 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
CONTENTS OF FIELD OPERATING CASE-Continued. 
Forceps, mouse-tooth, with teeth _no. 
2 
Probe, &ar<£ rubber, Fluhrer's no 
1 
Forceps,T-shaped, Pratt's no_ 
1 
Razor, hard rubber handle no_ 
1 
Gag, mouth, French's no 
1 
Retractors, double-ends, nested_ no 
Gouge no 
1 
Rongeur, medium, Keen's no 
1 
Guide, filiform, Gouley's no. 
1 
amputating, two blades, 
1 
1 
Knife, amputating, large, 7-inch 
Sail’, metacarpal no 
1 
blade no 
1 
Scalpels, assorted no 
■1 
Mallet, Forwood's no 
, 1 
Scissors, angular, blunt pointed-no_ 
1 
Needle, aneurism no 
1 
Scissors, curved on flat, Weir's. no. 
1 
Needle, curved, Reverdin's no. 
1 
Scissors, h par if, blunt _ no 
1 
Needle holder, Me Burney'8 no_ 
1 
Scoop, Wyeth's _ .no 
1 
Needles, artery, blunt, right and left 
Silk worm gut coil 
1 
no_ 
2 
Sponge holders, 1 Sims and 1 requ- 
Needles, case for no 
1 
lar - no 
2 
Needles, curved, assorted no 
12 
Syringe, aspirating, icith three 
Needles, straight round _ no 
6 
points no 
1 
Needles, straight, triangular no_ 
« 
Tenaculum _ no 
1 
Periosteotome, light, Sayre's no. 
i 
Trephine %-inch , Gall's no. 
1 
Pins, latest, Wyeth's . no 
2 
Ti'ocar and canula, *e£ 0/ 4, silver, 
Pouch, leather, tci7/i jtfnn/ strap-no_ 
1 
in metal box_ _ ... no 
i 
Probe, double-end, 8-inch long, owe 
end a porcelain tip, silver no_ 
1 
2'uiie, tracheotomy, silver no 
1 
283. CONTENTS OF MESS CHEST. 
See paragraph 256. 
284. CONTENTS OF FOOD CHEST. 
See paragraph 257. 
285. CONTENTS OF COMMODE CHEST. 
See paragraph 258. 
286. CONTENTS OF FIELD DESK. 
See paragraph 259. 
287. FOLDING FIELD FURNITURE. 
See paragraph 260. 
288. FOR DIVISION AMBULANCE TRAIN. 
Chests, surjical (Xos. 1 and 2), of 
each _ - - no 
1 
Lantern wicks, as required. 
Lanterns 
_uo 
no. :$ 
Chert; sterilizing . - - no 
1 
Litters 
no 20 
1 
Hatchet _ no 
1 
Hospital corps pouch, as 
re- 
Lantern glasses, extra, red or 
quired ... 
.110. - 
289. ISSUED BY THE QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. 
See paragraph 263. 
290. ISSUED BY THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. 
See paragraph 264. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
129 
GENERAL ORDERS AFFECTING THE MEDICAL DE- 
PARTMENT AND ITS SERVICE, PUBLISHED FROM 
THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT 
GENERAL’S OFFICE, SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE 
ISSUE OF THE 1898 EDITION OF THIS MANUAL. 
291. 
General Orders, No. 58—May 31, 1898. 
Enlisted men of the volunteer organizations may be trans- 
ferred to the Hospital Corps of the Regular Army by the 
Commanding General of the Army Corps in which the soldier 
is serving, upon the recommendation of the Chief Surgeon of 
the Corps. 
The provisions of Army Regulations governing the Hos- 
pital Corps so far as they are inapplicable in time of war and 
with troops in the field are hereby suspended during the 
existence of such conditions. 
The Commander of an Army Corps, or of a Division or 
Brigade acting independently of a Corps, is charged with the 
full control of the transfer from the line, the enlistment, re- 
enlistment, and discharge of members of the Hospital Corps 
of his command, with the detail of acting hospital stewards 
and the appointment of hospital stewards. 
Acting hospital stewards will he detailed from privates of 
the Hospital Corps who are recommended by their medical 
officers as possessing the necessary qualifications. Hospital 
stewards will be appointed from acting hospital stewards 
who are recommended by their medical officers and who have 
served not less than three months in the Hospital Corps and 
are approved by a board of not less than three medical officers. 
Enlistment papers in duplicate, examination forms, and 
outline figure cards for members of the Hospital Corps will 
be forwarded to the Surgeon General’s Office, as now required, 
and monthly reports will be made by the chief surgeon of 
the Corps, or Division if acting independently, showing the 
number of stewards, acting stewards, and privates on duty, 
the names of men transferred from the line, of those enlisted 
or reenlisted, discharged, died, detailed acting hospital stew- 
ard, or appointed hospital steward. 
8535 17 130 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
The quota of members of the Hospital Corps for a corps of 
25,000 men, is— 
Hospital 
stewards. 
Acting hos- 
pital stew- 
ards. 
Privates. 
1 
1 
3 
1 
1 
2 
1 
2 
1 
1 
1 
For each division ambulance company, and for the reserve corps 
7 
3 
104 
For each division field hospital and for the reserve corps field 
hospital 
6 
3 
90 
The three volunteer hospital stewards mustered in with 
each regiment are included in this strength. 
The Corps Commander may make such distribution of the 
members of the Hospital Corps within his command as he 
considers for the best interests of the service. 
292. 
General Orders, No. 62—June 3, 1898. 
II. From and after this date, the issue of the full dress uni- 
forms to hospital stewards, acting hospital stewards, and pri- 
vates of the Hospital Corps, U. S. Army, will be discontinued, 
and an equivalent allowance in money value of white cotton 
duck clothing will be made instead, and authority is hereby 
granted to issue, free of charge, to each of the enlisted men of 
the Hospital Corps, entitled to wear them, two pairs of service 
chevrons per annum. 
293. 
General Orders, No. 71—June 17, 1898. 
By direction of the Secretary of War, the following instruc- 
tions are published for the information and guidance of 
recruiting officers of the Army,, both Regulars and Volunteers: 
In the absence of a commissioned medical officer or contract 
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enlistment required by Army Regulations, at a compensation 
of forty cents for each man thus examined. 
Such oi; the provisions of paragraphs 842 and 1458 of the 
Army Regulations, and of Circular Letters, Adjutant Gen- 
eral’s Office, May 25, 1896, and June 3, 1898, as are inconsist- 
ent with the foregoing are suspended during the war. 
294. General Orders, No. 76—June 22, 1898. 
I. By direction of the Secretary of War, the following 
allowance of horses for mounts, wheel transportation, tent- 
age, etc., for the Medical Department of the Army in the 
field is authorized: 
Horses for mounts, 
H. S. 
A. H. S. 
Privates. 
1 
1 
3 
1 
1 
2 
1 
2 
1 
1 
t 
1 
To each division ambulance company 
3 
12 
To each corps reserve ambulance company 
7 
3 
12 
To each division field hospital 
2 
2 
6 
To each corps reserve hospital _ 
“ 
2 
6 
Wheel transportation. 
One ambulance to 400 men of the effective force. 
One 4-liorse wagon to 600 men of the effective force. 
One 4-horse wagon to each brigade. 
For each ambulance company: 
17 common tents for privates. 
2 common tents for noncommissioned officers. 
For each division field hospital: 
15 common tents for privates. 
2 common tents for noncommissioned officers. 
1 common tent for supplies. 
Hospital tents on a basis of 6 patients (beds) to each 
tent. 
Tentage. 132 
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Hand litters, with slings, to be furnished by the Quarter- 
master’s Department: 
1 for each company. 
2 for each ambulance. 
Requisitions for the necessary articles of camp and garrison 
equipage, tools, etc., will be based on the official allowances 
for companies of infantry. 
Requisitions for the before-mentioned supplies will be sent 
in separately for divisions, with statement whether or not the 
division organization is complete. 
Horses and wheel transportation will be furnished by the 
Quartermaster's Department, and horse equipments by the 
Ordnance Department. 
II. Commanding Generals of Army Corps are directed to 
detail, upon the application of Chief Surgeons of Corps, two 
line officers not above the grade of first lieutenant for duty as 
Acting Assistant Quartermasters with the medical service of 
each division. . 
295. 
General Orders, No. 82—June 27, 1898. 
I. By direction of the Secretary of War, the attention of 
Commanding Generals of Army Corps in the field is directed 
to the fact that the act of Congress approved June 2, 1898 
(General Orders, No. 62, June 8, 1898, from this office), fixes 
the number of hospital stewards, Hospital Corps, U. S. Army, 
at two hundred (200), and that owing to the number of hos- 
pital stewards now on duty outside of the limits of the Army 
Corps in the field, ten (10) only will be available for duty with 
each Army Corps, which number under the law can not be 
exceeded. 
It is important that it should be fully understood that the 
hospital stewards mustered in with each volunteer regiment 
can be detached from their regiments and assigned to duty at 
the discretion of the Commanding Generals of Army Corps. 
III. By direction of the Secretary of War, men who are 
sick in the division or brigade hospitals of their command, at 
date of muster, will be mustered on the muster rolls and the MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
pay rolls of the organization to which they belong as ‘ ‘ pres- 
ent,” with the remark “sick in division or brigade hospital.” 
If the organization to which they belong be detached from 
the corps, division, or brigade, they will be mustered on 
detachment rolls (Form No. 2), a separate roll being prepared 
for each regiment. See Note 1 on the rolls and A. R. 785, the 
provisions of which must be strictly observed. 
296. 
General Orders, No. 91—July 8, 1898 
By direction of the Secretary of War, paragraphs 878, 882, 
and 888 of the Regulations are amended to read as follows: 
878. Inspections having in view the condemnation of prop- 
erty will be made by inspectors general, acting inspectors gen- 
eral, or officers specially designated by the commander of a 
department, the commander of an army corps, or army in the 
field, or higher authority. Officers designated for the fore- 
going purpose shall not be in any way connected with the 
staff department or corps, the post, or particular organization 
to which the property to be inspected pertains, except in case 
of unserviceable public animals or of small quantities of rap- 
idly deteriorating subsistence stores, unfit for sale or issue to 
troops but not worthless, if delay would entail loss to the 
Government. 
882. Inspectors will examine all property properly presented 
for condemnation. When all property presented has been 
destroyed in the presence of the inspector, one inventory will 
be forwarded by the inspecting officer through department 
or army corps headquarters to the Inspector General of the 
Army and-the others will be delivered to the accountable 
officer. In cases in which the inspector recommends the sale 
of any property or its transfer to depots, he will forward all 
the inventories to department or army corps headquarters, 
and if the inspector’s action is approved by the department 
or army corps commander, except as provided in paragraphs 
1525 and 1526, two will be returned to the accountable officer 
and the other forwarded to the Adjutant General of the 
Army to be transmitted to the Inspector General of the 134 
Army, and, in similar cases, when the accountable officer is 
not serving under the department or army corps commander 
and all the property has been destroyed in the presence of 
the inspector, one copy of the inventory will be forwarded to 
the Inspector General of the Army and two to the account- 
able officer, or if sale or transfer of the property is recom- 
mended, the inspecting officer will forward all the inventories 
to the Inspector General of the Army, who will forward them 
to the Secretary of War, through the chief of bureau con- 
cerned ; one copy will be returned to the Inspector General 
and two to the accountable officer. 
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888. Department commanders, the commander of an army 
corps, or army in the field, or the Commanding General of 
the Army, may give orders, on the reports of authorized 
inspectors, to sell, destroy, or make such other disposition of 
condemned property as the case may require, except the sale 
of ordnance and ordnance stores and the destruction of sad- 
dles issued by the Ordnance Department, for which the orders 
of the Secretary of War must be given. If the property be 
of considerable value, and there be good reason to suppose 
that it can be more advantageously applied or disposed of 
elsewhere than within the command, the matter will be re- 
ferred to the War Department through the Adjutant General 
of the Army. 
297. 
General Orders, No. 100—July 16, 1898. 
Information having reached the War Department that not- 
withstanding the medical examination prior to muster in. 
men have been enlisted in the Volunteer Army who should 
have been rejected at that examination as unfit for military 
service, the attention of Chief Surgeons is directed to this 
subject as one of great importance. Systematic inquiry, with 
a view to eliminating such men, should he made in the 
various regiments and other commands by the medical offi- 
cers on duty with them. A board of medical officers should 
be appointed in each division to carefully examine and make 
recommendation in each of the cases submitted by individual 
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from service is recommended, it should he seen that the cer- 
tificates of disability embody a statement to the effect that 
the cause of the disqualification for the military service ex- 
isted prior to the enlistment of the man, if such is found to 
be the fact. Department and corps commanders are author- 
ized to order discharges on certificates of disability, such or- 
ders to be carried out by the regimental, independent battal 
ion, battery, or detachment commanders as the case may be. 
Such provisions of paragraph 140 of the Regulations as are 
inconsistent with the foregoing are suspended during the war. 
In the examination of certificates of disability for discharge, 
it is enjoined upon the Chief Surgeons, and others account- 
able, to observe that there is no conflict between the reports 
of company commanders, medical and other officers thereon, 
as to whether disability was incurred in line of duty, or not 
in line of duty. If any discrepancies exist in this particular, 
every possible means will be employed to harmonize the re- 
ports before finally forwarding the papers to the Adjutant 
General of the Army. 
298. 
III. Paragraphs 1252 and 1284 of the Regulations are 
amended to read as follows: 
General Orders, No. 106—July 23, 1898. 
1252. Enlisted men, hospital matrons, and female nurses 
are each entitled to one ration per day. When the rate of 
pay of a civilian employed with the Army does not exceed 
sixty dollars per month, and the circumstances of his service 
make it necessary, and the terms of his engagement provide 
for it, there may be issued to him one ration in kind per day, 
on ration returns signed and certified as necessary by the offi- 
cer in charge, and ordered by the commanding officer. 
1284. Civilians at rates of pay of sixty dollars or more 
per month, employed with the Army at remote places or in 
the field where food can not otherwise be procured, may be 
allowed to purchase from the Subsistence Department, in 
limited quantities for their own use, for cash at cost price, 
such articles of the ration or of stores kept for sales to officers 
and enlisted men as can be spared from the supplies on hand. 136 
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299. 
General Orders, No. 108—July 28,1898. 
All general officers and officers of the several staff corps of 
the regular or volunteer armies of the United States will 
report by letter at the end of each month to the Adjutant 
General of the Army and to the Chiefs of their respective 
Corps, specifying the nature of their duties, the dates of their 
assignment thereto, and the authority by which they were 
so assigned; stating, if not on duty, the date from which 
absent, the cause of such absence, and the authority, if any, 
therefor. 
The first report to be made under this order will show the 
commands with which the officers have been serving and the 
duties performed by them since May 1, 1898. 
300. 
General Orders, No. 114—August 9, 1898. 
I. Sick and wounded soldiers sent to U. S. general or field 
hospitals will, when able to travel, be granted by the surgeons 
in charge one month’s furlough and transportation to their 
homes. There will be noted on the furlough: By the surgeon, 
the post or camp nearest to the home of the soldier; by the 
quartermaster, the issue of transportation; by the commis- 
sary, the days for which commutation of rations while travel- 
ing is paid. Weekly reports will be made by the surgeons to 
the Adjutant General of the Army of furloughs so granted, 
giving names, rank, regiments, and places to which trans- 
portation has been issued; also post-office address. 
Soldiers granted furloughs in accordance with the foregoing 
will be instructed by the surgeons that on the expiration of 
their furloughs, if fit for duty, they must report at the nearest 
Army post, camp, or hospital for the purpose of being either 
sent to their regiments, or as provided for in paragraph II. 
Those not fit for duty will be required to forward their fur- 
loughs, five days before expiration, to the Adjutant General 
of the Army, accompanied by the certificate of a reputable 
physician showing clearly their physical condition and the 
probable time required for their recovery. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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The Quartermaster’s Department will furnish the necessary 
transportation to the homes of the furloughed soldiers and 
the Subsistence Department commutation of rations at the 
rate of one dollar and fifty cents per day for the necessary 
number of days’ travel. Sleeping-car accommodations when 
the travel is by rail and staterooms when the travel is by boat 
(other than Government transport) will be furnished under 
A. R. 1109. Neither the cost of transportation nor commuta- 
tion of rations while traveling will be charged against the 
soldier. This order will not apply to soldiers on ordinary 
furloughs. 
II. The following instructions to provide for the disposition 
of enlisted men, patients in the U. S. general or field hospitals, 
who have made complete recovery and are able to do full duty, 
are published for the information and guidance of all con- 
cerned: 
Soldiers, both regulars and volunteers, whose regiments are 
in the United States will be sent by the surgeons in charge of 
hospitals to join their proper regiments. 
Soldiers belonging to regiments of the Regular Army which 
are not in the United States will be sent by the surgeons in 
charge of hospitals to report for duty with recruit detach- 
ments of their respective regiments, except artillery soldiers 
of the Regular Army belonging to batteries which have left 
the United States, who will be sent to the headquarters of 
their respective regiments. 
Those belonging to volunteer organizations which are not 
in the United States will be sent by the surgeons in charge of 
hospitals to the nearest military post or camp. 
The names of all men sent from general or field hospitals 
under these instructions, their companies and regiments, and 
the places to which they are ordered, will be promptly re- 
ported to this office by the surgeons in charge of hospitals, 
who will be furnished, by this office, with weekly printed 
statements of the stations of U. S. troops—regulars and vol- 
unteers—which statements will also show the location of the 
detachments of recruits belonging to regiments of the Regu- 
lar Army that are not in the United States. 
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The necessary transportation under this order will be fur- 
nished by the Quartermaster’s Department, and the Subsist- 
ence Department will pay commutation of rations at the rate 
of one dollar and fifty cents per day for the necessary number 
of days’ travel. These provisions will not apply to soldiers 
on ordinary furloughs. 
III. If the soldier has been paid or drawn clothing while in 
a hospital it will be noted on his descriptive list, if he has 
one, and if not, his company commander, or the officer to 
whom he may be ordered to report, will be furnished this 
information by letter. 
301. 
General Orders, No. 116—August 10, 1898, 
Medical officers in charge of general hospitals, hospital 
trains, hospital transports, and the hospital at the camp at 
Pablo Beach, Florida, and at the hospital at the camp at Mon- 
tauk Point, New York, will be allowed to expend from the 
appropriation “Subsistence of the Army,” for the diet of the 
enlisted men undergoing medical treatment under their 
charge, at the rate of not exceeding sixty cents per man per 
day for the period each is undergoing treatment. The allow- 
ance so made will constitute a special fund in the hands of 
the medical officer in charge, from which will be purchased 
the entire diet of the enlisted men while undergoing medical 
treatment. These purchases will be restricted to articles of 
food, solid and liquid, the quantities and varieties of which 
will be determined by the medical officer in charge. 
Chief commissaries of departments will transfer to medical 
officers in charge such sribsistence funds as may be estimated 
for by the latter for carrying out the objects of this order. 
There will he rendered monthly to the Commissary General 
of Subsistence, by the medical officers concerned, regular 
accounts current supported by vouchers showing the applica- 
tion of these funds, and regular returns of subsistence stores 
accounting for the articles of food purchased and issued. 
There will be submitted with each monthly return a tabular 
statement showing the number of patients present during the 
month as shown by the hospital records, and the money value 139 
of the articles issued to and consumed by them. The state 
ment will be so arranged as to show the actual cost of sub 
sistence per man per day for the month. 
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Transfers of subsistence funds from one hospital, train, or 
transport to another without authority of the Commissary 
General of Subsistence, and the purchase from subsistence 
funds of articles other than food intended for diet of the sick, 
are prohibited. 
This order will go into effect at once, and all surplus funds 
in the hands of medical officers in charge, arising from the 
commutation of rations heretofore allowed to enlisted men 
undergoing treatment under their charge, will be taken up on 
their accounts current for the month of August, and all arti- 
cles purchased from such commutation remaining on hand 
unconsumed on receipt hereof will be taken up on their returns 
of subsistence stores for that month. 
302. General Orders, No. 117—August 10, 1898. 
In order to prevent as far as possible the diseases incident 
to encampments of large bodies of men, namely: typhoid and 
malarial fevers, diarrhea and dysentery, and the further 
spread thereof where these diseases have already gained more 
or less headway, all officers, from the commanding general to 
company commanders, will exercise the utmost vigilance to 
enforce proper sanitary conditions in camp and strict cleanli 
ness of the person. ' 
The speedy destruction or removal with safety of all decay- 
ing substances present and future, and the rendering innoxious 
the feculent matter of the camp, must be accomplished. 
The Quartermaster’s Department will furnish lumber for 
floors to all tents. The general commanding camp will at 
once provide ample hospital facilities by erecting barracks 
where there is a shortage of hospital tents. 
No effort will be spared to carry this order into effect to the 
fullest extent, and to this end those concerned will not rest 
content with the issuance of orders upon the subject, but they 
or their representatives, duly impressed with this grave 140 
responsibility, will immediately see to the commencement, 
continuance, superintendence, and practical accomplishment, 
day by day, of the instructions imposed upon the command. 
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The attention of all concerned is called to Army Regulations 
concerning interior economy, police, and discipline of com 
panies, to Circular No. 1, Surgeon General’s Office, April 25, 
1898, to “Marches’’and “Camping” in the authorized Drill 
Regulations, to ‘ ‘ Soldier’s Handbook ” and the remarks therein 
compiled. From these easily accessible data, supplemented 
by his own practical experience and that of others, the com- 
manding general of each camp will at once prepare and put 
into immediate execution a simple code of rules, of the daily 
practical accomplishment of which he will assure himself, 
rendering daily reports to the Adjutant General of the Army. 
Copies of the rules promulgated will be sent at the earliest 
moment to the Adjutaut Generel of the Army. 
303. General Orders, No 121—August 18, 1898 
I. In addition to the instructions published in General 
Orders, No. 114, August 9, 1898, from this office, regarding 
furloughs to sick and wounded soldiers, division commanders, 
when separated from the corps to which they belong, are 
authorized to gra*nt furloughs to enlisted men, upon the rec- 
ommendation of the division surgeon, and to order transpor- 
tation to their homes of the men so furloughed. 
304. General Orders, No. 124.—August 20, 1898. 
I. The following instructions for the muster out of the 
service of United States Volunteers are published for the 
information and guidance of all concerned: 
5. Officers who at any time were responsible for public prop- 
erty of any description must obtain certificates of nonindebt- 
edness before their final payment can be made. Commanding 
officers will therefore forward at once to the Paymaster Gen- 
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mustered out, and to the Quartermaster General, Commissary 
General of Subsistence, Surgeon General, Chief of Engineers, 
Chief of Ordnance, and Chief Signal Officer, a list of those 
officers who are, or at any time have been, responsible for 
pul die property. Chiefs of the supply departments mentioned 
will cause immediate examination of returns to be made and 
transmit the result thereof to the Paymaster General. 
6. Officers who have not at any time been responsible for 
public property will be required to furnish the mustering 
officer with their affidavits to that effect, certified to by the 
commanding officer of the regiment, independent battalion, 
or company. The affidavits of such officers will be trans- 
mitted with the muster-out rolls to the paymaster designated 
to make the payment to the organization. 
II. As soon after the arrival of the organization at its State 
rendezvous as possible the physical examination of all officers 
and men will be made, before muster-out and payment. 
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF OFFICERS AND MEN. 
1. To facilitate the settlement of pension claims that may 
be made on account of disability incurred in the United States 
service, and to protect the rights of persons who may be enti- 
tled to the benefits of the pension laws as well as to giiard 
the interests of the Government, it is ordered that a thorough 
physical examination be made of all officers and enlisted men 
of Volunteers, except general officers and of the gen- 
eral staff, immediately prior to their muster out of service or 
discharge. For this purpose a blank form will be supplied 
by the Adjutant General of the Army. 
2. When an organization is about to be mustered out of the 
service each officer and enlisted man will be required by his 
company or other commanding officer to answer the questions 
on the blank form “ Declaration of person to be mustered 
out,” which, when completed, will be signed by him and duly 
witnessed by said officer. This officer will then make the 
required certificate, which follows the declaration, based 
upon the official records of the organization and on his per- 
sonal knowledge of the facts in the case. 142 
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3. When the physical examination papers of the officers and 
men of a company or other organization are so far completed, 
they will be given to the mustering officer, who will cause the 
physical examination to be made and said papers to be com- 
pleted by a medical officer of the Regular Army, whenever 
the services of such an officer are available, and when not, 
then by a medical officer of Volunteers not belonging to the 
organization of which the officers and men are members. 
4. The mustering officer will report to the Adjutant Gen- 
eral of the Army any person under examination who claims 
to have a disability of which the medical officer can find no 
evidence, or claims to have a disability incurred in line of 
duty, whereas the medical officer is of the opinion that the 
disability was not so incurred, such person will not be dis- 
charged until after he shall have been examined by a board of 
three medical officers, to be convened by the Adjutant Gen- 
eral of the Army, which will make a full report of the case in 
accordance with the terms of this order. If the medical offi- 
cers fail to agree with regard to the case, a separate minority 
report will be made by the dissenting officer. 
5. Upon completion of the medical examination the papers 
in the case will be turned over to the mustering officer, who 
will forward them with the muster-out rolls to the Adjutant 
General of the Army. 
305. General Orders, No. 126.—August 25, 1898 
II. The demand for Hospital Corps privates for the care of 
the sick in various commands being greater than can he sup- 
plied by transfer and enlistment, corps commanders and 
commanders of camps not under the jurisdiction of corps 
commanders are authorized and directed to detail a sufficient 
number of enlisted men to meet the emergency, the number 
of men and the length of detail to be determined by the chief 
surgeon. 
III. The following instructions are published for the infor- 
mation and guidance of all concerned: MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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All officers and enlisted men absent from their organiza- 
tions on leave, furlough, or from any other cause, will at 
once report by letter to their respective company or regi- 
mental commanders the date, cause, period, and authority of 
absence. In case the whereabouts of the company or regi- 
ment is not known to the absentee, the report can be for- 
warded under cover to the Adjutant General of the Army. 
Surgeons in charge of hospitals and all post commanders 
will, at the end of each month, send to the proper company 
or regimental commander the name of each officer and 
enlisted man in the hospital or at the post, other than those 
belonging thereto, giving the cause of detention, date of 
arrival, departure, return to duty, or death, or any other 
information that may be pertinent to the case. 
306. 
General Orders, No. 127—August 26, 1898. 
Acting assistant surgeons may wear the uniform of an 
assistant surgeon with the rank of 1st lieutenant, the shoulder 
straps and ornaments to be in silver instead of gold. 
307. 
General Orders, No. 134—September 2, 1898. 
2. It haying been reported to the War Department that 
many convalescent soldiers who have received furloughs and 
started for their homes have been taken ill on the way, to 
avoid further occurrences of this kind it is suggested in the 
strongest possible terms that all soldiers traveling homeward 
on furloughs will exercise their best judgment in caring for 
themselves, especially those who have been ill in hospitals 
with fevers. Their appetites are very keen, and unless they 
deny themselves everything except the necessary food of the 
simplest character are in great danger of a relapse. This in- 
struction is sent out hoping that it may catch the eye of those 
men en route and also for the instruction of surgeons at hos- 
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whom the surgeon in charge believes to be unable to travel 
alone, and that no furloughed soldier shall leave hospital 
without receiving full instructions as to his diet while 
en route to his home from liis surgeon. 
308. 
The provisions of General Orders, No. 116, War Depart- 
ment, Adjutant General’s Office, August 10, 1898, are hereby 
extended to include all field and post hospitals. 
In this connection it is to be understood that General Or- 
ders, No. 116, does not do away with the hospital fund, but 
applies to patients who, in the opinion of the surgeon, are too 
sick to use the ration. For patients that can use the ration and 
for the Hospital Corps savings can be made as heretofore. 
Nor does the order take away the privilege of using funds and 
supplies furnished by aid societies, the using of which is 
left to the discretion of the surgeon, as is also the question 
whether or not there should be separate tables, kitchens, etc., 
having in mind the fact that the subsistence fund is to be 
used for those patients who need special articles of diet. Gen 
eral Orders, No. 116, is further intended to place in the hands 
of the surgeon a fund from which necessary articles of diet 
for patients too sick to use the ration can be purchased, with- 
out waiting for the formation of a hospital fund, and at the 
same time to prevent a large hospital fund accruing from 
those too sick to use the ration. 
To sum up, the allowance of subsistence funds is intended 
to furnish the surgeon with the necessary funds for the pur- 
chase of such articles of the diet as in his discretion he may 
find necessary. It is not intended for those well enough to 
use the ration, nor is it intended to furnish the Hospital 
Corps with delicacies and special articles of the ration which 
could not be purchased from their own savings. 
General Orders, No. 136—September 3, 1898. 
309. 
General Orders, No. 139—September 7, 1898. 
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soldiers who are sent home on sick furlough, and in every 
instance when the officer in charge of the Hospital issues a 
furlough he should state on the furlough that under General 
Orders, No. 114, August 9, 1898, this office, the soldier so 
furloughed is entitled to transportation and, if in the judg- 
ment of the surgeon the soldier should be furnished with 
sleeping-car accommodations, that fact will be stated, and 
when it so appears on the furlough the Quartermaster must 
not only issue transportation but sleeping-car accommoda- 
tions as well. 
310. 
The quartermaster stationed at a general hospital under 
paragraph 1, General Orders, No. 139, September 7,1898, War 
Department, Adjutant General’s Office, for the purpose of 
giving transportation to soldiers sent home on sick furlough, 
will act as commissary of subsistence for paying commuta 
tion of rations to such soldiers under General Orders, No. 114, 
August 9, 1898, War Department, Adjutant General’s Office, 
and will obtain subsistence funds for the purpose by requisi- 
tion on the Chief Commissary of the Department in which 
the hospital is situated. Eor the purpose of making pay- 
ments of commutation of rations in convenient form to those 
entitled, quartermasters on duty as above at general hospitals 
are authorized to keep subsistence funds at their own risk in 
their personal possession to an amount not exceeding three 
thousand dollars at any one time; and the Quartermaster's 
Department is authorized to furnish transportation from time 
to time from the public depository to the hospital for such 
amounts of subsistence funds in currency as the quarter- 
master on duty as acting commissary thereat may call for. 
General Orders, No. 145—September 16, 1898. 
311. 
General Orders, No. 151—September 22, 1898. 
I. By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, at least two 
medical officers shall always be left on duty with each volun- 
teer regiment, including the surgeon with the rank of major, 
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and all regiments will be allowed four hospital tents and field 
furniture to equip them for a regimental hospital for each 
regiment. 
II. By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, paragraphs 
85 and 886 of the Regulations are amended to read as follows: 
85. The remains of officers killed in action, or who die when 
on duty in the field or at military posts, or when traveling 
under orders, will be inclosed in coffins, and unless claimed 
by relatives or friends will be transported by the Quarter- 
master’s Department to the nearest military post or national 
cemetery, or, if so desired by their relatives, to their homes 
for burial. The expense of transporting the remains is pay- 
able from the appropriation for Army transportation, or from 
funds specially appropriated for that purpose; other expenses 
of burial are limited to $75. If buried at the place of death, 
the fact will be reported to the Adjutant General of the Army. 
886. Inspectors will, when practicable, cause the destruc- 
tion, in their presence, of all property found to be worthless 
and which is without money value at or near the place of 
inspection, and will state in their reports that “the articles 
recommended to be destroyed have no- money value at or near 
the post.” The action of an inspector on property of this 
character will be final, and his report will be a valid voucher 
for the responsible officer. Inspectors will be held responsi- 
ble for their action in this particular. When property thus 
condemned is not destroyed in the presence of the inspector 
the responsible officer will certify to the fact of subsequent 
destruction in his presence. 
312. 
General Orders, No. 164—October 11, 1898. 
I. By direction of the Secretary of War, chief mustering 
officers will make timely application to the Surgeon General 
of the Army for the detail of medical officers of the Regular 
Army or of the Volunteer staff to make the physical exami- 
nations of officers and men required by General Orders, No. 
124, August 20, 1898, from this office, and, to further expedite 
the examinations, will also detail, under the provisions of said 147 
order, medical officers of any one or more organizations of the 
same State for the examination of the officers and men of 
another regiment. 
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II. By direction of the Secretary of War, section 4 of para- 
graph II of General Orders, No. 124, August 20, 1898, from 
this office, is so amended that when it is impracticable to 
secure a board of three medical officers to examine persons 
claiming disability incurred in the line of duty which, in the 
opinion of the medical officer, was not so incurred, mustering 
officers are authorized to convene boards composed of one or 
two medical officers, other than those who made the original 
examination, and when the convening of such a board is not 
possible they will themselves make the examination required 
and report the facts in the case to this office. 
III. By direction of the Secretary of War, mustering officers 
will require medical officers of regiments ordered to be mus- 
tered out to render at once to the Surgeon General of the 
Army such monthly reports of sick and wounded as they may 
have failed to forward, for any cause, at the time such reports 
were due. They will also require that all retained medical 
records, including registers of patients, be forwarded to that 
officer, to whom medical officers will apply for certificates that 
these reports and records have been filed in his office. 
313. 
General Orders, No. 173—October 26, 1898. 
III. By direction of the Secretary of War, in addition to 
the instructions published in paragraph 1, General Orders, 
No. 121, August 18, and Circular, No. 41, October 13, 1898, the 
provisions of General Orders, No. 114, August 9,1898, from this 
office, are extended so as to authorize a regimental commander, 
when the regiment is serving as a separate command, to grant 
furloughs to sick and wounded soldiers upon the recommen- 
dation of the regimental surgeon, and to order transportation 
to their homes of the men so furloughed. 148 
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314. 
I. By direction of the Secretary of War, so much of para- 
graph 994 of the Regulations as allows contract surgeons 
commutation of quarters is revoked. 
General Orders, No. 174—November 2, 1898. 
315. 
General Orders, No. 175—November 3, 1898. 
II. By direction of the Secretary of War, officers account- 
able on returns for public property to one or more bureaus, 
but not to others, are authorized with respect to these others 
to submit to paymaster, in lieu of certificate of nonindebted- 
ness from chiefs of such bureaus, affidavits of nonaccounta- 
bility or responsibility thereto, when countersigned by the 
commanding officer of the regiment or independent command. 
Except in case of ordnance and ordnance stores, officers who 
have been responsible for public property on memorandum 
receipt are authorized to submit to paymaster, in lieu of cer • 
tificate pf nonindebtedness from chief of bureau concerned, 
affidavit, countersigned by commanding officer of regimenc or 
independent command, that he has properly accounted for 
all public property for which he has at any time been so re- 
sponsible to said bureau. The memorandum receipt of the 
officer to whom the property has been transferred by him will 
be attached to the affidavit. In case of ordnance property, 
memorandum receipts are not allowed. 
316. 
General Orders, No. 178—November 8, 1898. 
I. By direction of the Secretary of War, the provisions of 
General Orders, No. 58, May 31, 1898, from this office, under 
which the commander of an army corps or of a division or 
brigade acting independently of a corps is charged with the 
full control of the transfer from the line, the enlistment, re 
enlistment, and discharge of members of the Hospital Corps 
of his command, with the detail of acting hospital stewards 
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that the commanding officers of military departments out- 
side of the limits of the United States are charged with the 
same authority. 
III. The purpose of the regimental hospital in field service 
is to furnish protection and care to the sick of the command 
while on a march or in the field, or to those temporarily sick 
while in camp of instruction. It is an emergency hospital 
in the one case and a detention hospital in the other, but is 
not intended for the treatment of the very ill, who in the 
event of a move would prove to be an incumbrance to the 
regiment. When cases are found to he serious in nature they 
should he promptly transferred to brigade or division hospi- 
tals, except where regiments are isolated, in which event the 
bed capacity may be increased as necessary, all of the sick 
being cared for and transfers made to general hospitals when 
ordered by proper authority. 
Of enlisted personnel, there will be allowed, in addition to 
the three regimental hospital stewards now authorized by 
law— 
Qne acting hospital steward. 
Six privates of the Hospital Corps as attendants and orderlies. 
One private of the Hospital Corps as cook. 
One private for each ambulance and wagon. 
If members of the Hospital Corps can not be obtained as 
drivers, the Quartermaster’s Department will hire civilians 
for that purpose. 
The tentage will consist of— 
Four hospital tents (two to be used as wards, one as dis- 
pensary and storage, and one for the mess). 
One wall tent for noncommissioned officers. 
Three common tents for privates. 
One common tent for cook tent. 
The allowance of ambulances and mounts is fixed in Gen- 
eral Orders, No. 76, June 22, 1898, from this office, and two 
four-horse wagons will be furnished for each hospital. The 
allowance of the medical supplies will be fixed by the Surgeon 
General. 
Inspectors will give particular attention to the condition of 
the regimental hospitals and note any departures from their 
organization as published in this order. 150 
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CIRCULARS FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJU- 
TANT GENERAL’S OFFICE. 
317. 
Circular No. 25—July 20, 1898. 
1. Uniform.—Acting Assistant Surgeons will be permitted 
to wear the undress uniform of the U. S. Army Medical Corps, 
bereft of all marks and insignia of rank. — [Decision Sec. War, 
July If 9S—989G1 A. G. O.] 
318. 
Circular No. 31—August 12, 1898. 
Owing to the number of incorrect and incomplete final 
statements daily presented to paymasters for settlement, it is 
apparent that the obligations of officers issuing such state- 
ments are not fully understood, and the result is great incon- 
venience to discharged soldiers, who are obliged to return to 
their late commanding officers to have necessary corrections 
made, and liability of paymasters to overpay, when the account 
of the soldier is not fully and properly stated. 
In order that there may be uniformity in the issue of final 
statements, the following instructions, compiled from the 
Army Regulations, will be strictly observed. 
‘ ‘ It should he borne in mind that overpayments caused by 
erroneous final statements will be charged against the officer 
who signed the final statements. ” 
Notification of discharge. 
(Par. 160, A. R.) 
The officer who prepares the final statement of a soldier will, at least one day 
before the discharge takes effect, send by mail to the paymaster to whom the soldier 
may wish to apply for payment a notification in his own handwriting, in form as 
follows: 
“Major , Paymaster, U. S. Army, 
“ Washington. 
“Sir : I have the honor to advise you that Private will be discharged the 
service of the United States on , 1898, by reason of .” (Here state the 
reason.) 
“The soldier was last paid to , 1898, and has pay due him from that date to 
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“ There is due him for clothing not drawn in kind, $ ,” or “ He is indebted 
to the United States for clothing overdrawn, $ . He is indebted to the United 
States for C. & G. E., $ . For court-martial forfeiture, 8 . 
“ The soldier is (or is not, as the case may be) entitled to traveling allowances. 
“ His signature appears below. 
“ (Soldier’s signature:) 
“Very respectfully, 
“ Com'g Co. ■— Regl. Vols.” 
Soldiers are discharged for the following reasons. 
(Par. 140, A. R. and G. 0., No. 100, A. G. 0., 1898.) 
1. By order of the President or the Secretary of War. 
2. By sentence of a general court-martial. 
3. On surgeon’s certificate of disability by direction of the commander of a terri- 
torial department or army in the field. Department and corps commanders are 
authorized to order discharge on certificates of disability, such orders to be carried 
out by the regimental, independent battalion, battery, or detachment commander, 
as the case may be, and the final statements should show the authority for discharge 
and whether or not the disability was caused by the soldier’s own misconduct. The 
requirements of G. 0., No. 100, A. G. 0., 1898, should be carefully observed. 
4. In compliance with an order of one of the United States courts, or a,justice or 
judge thereof, or on a writ of habeas corpus. 
5. By expiration of term of service. 
Under the head of “Remarks” the notation, “Service honest and faithful,” or 
“Service not honest and faithful,” as the case may be, must appear. 
1. By dishonorable discharge, per sentence of court-martial 
2. When soldier is discharged as a minor, or for other cause involving fraud on 
his part in the enlistment. 
3. When, at date of discharge, the soldier is in the hands of civil authorities and 
undergoing imprisonment. 
4. When discharged before expiration of term of enlistment through fault of his. 
5. When discharged by order of the Secretary of War, or by corps or department 
commander, for disability caused by his own misconduct. 
6. When discharged by way of favor, as “to enable him to accept a commission.” 
If for any of the above causes the soldier is not entitled to traveling allowances, 
the notation, “ not entitled to traveling allowances,” must appear, and the authority 
for the same must be stated. 
Travel-pay is forfeited. 
Settlement must be made by the company commander, and the balance “due the 
United States,” or “due the soldier,” must be stated. 
In cases where clothing has been issued by the State authorities the following 
remark will bo made on the final statements: “In the settlement for clothing is 
included the sum of $ , the total value of articles issued him by the State.” 
In cases where no clothing was issued by the State a remark to that effect will be 
made. 
Clothing account. 152 
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Circular No. 34—August 29, 1898. 
Transportation.—Sick and wounded soldiers granted fur- 
loughs under the provisions of General Orders, No. 114, August 
9, 1898, from this office, are entitled to transportation from 
their homes upon return to duty whether application therefor 
be made by them in person or by letter.—[Order Sec. War, 
Aug. 27, 98, 115661 A. G. O.] 
CIRCULARS FROM HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, 
ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE. 
320. 
Circular No. 21—June 30, 1898. 
II. The following recommendation of the Surgeon General 
of the Army, respecting the examination of medical officers 
appointed to fill vacancies in volunteer regiments already mus- 
tered into the service of the United States, is approved by the 
Secretary of War, and, by his direction, is published for the 
information and guidance of all concerned: 
In my opinion when appointed by the governor of a State to fill a vacancy in a 
regiment, the physician appointed should be examined by a hoard of three physi- 
cians appointed by the governor and w itliout expense to the United States. The 
certificate of this board that the candidate has passed a satisfactory physical and 
professional examination being accepted by the War Department as evidence of his 
fitness for the place to which he has been appointed. 
321. 
Circular No. 41—October 13, 1898. 
The provisions of General Orders, No. 114, August 9, 1898, 
from this office, are intended to apply only to those soldiers 
who, by reason of severe wounds or serious illness, have been 
admitted into a general or division field hospital, and whose 
cases require a change of surroundings in the judgment of 
the surgeon in charge. Final action on furloughs to soldiers 
under treatment in division hospitals will be taken by division 
commanders.—[Decision Sec. War, Oct. 13, .95.] MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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322. 
Circular No. 42—October 18, 1898. 
Commutation op rations for nurses.—Inasmuch as fe- 
male nurses in general hospitals are, by section 1277, Revised 
Statutes, entitled to commutation of rations, it is ordered 
that commutation of rations will hereafter be allowed to all 
nurses, whether male or female, or whether employed in gen- 
eral or other hospitals, when they are granted leaves of ab- 
sence by the Surgeon General of the Army, the rate to be the 
same as that of enlisted men on furlough, that is, twenty-five 
cents per day. — [Decision Sec. War, Oct. 17, 98—123329 A. 
G. O.] 
323. 
Privates of the Hospital Corps, U. S. Army, who have been 
transferred from volunteer regiments which are to be mus- 
tered out of the service, will be discharged, if they so request, 
upon the day on which their former regiment is mustered 
out, providing that their service has been honest and faithful. 
The names of such men will be forwarded by the surgeons 
commanding hospitals and ambulance companies through 
military channels to the Adjutant General with as little delay 
as practicable. Applications for discharge of men of the Hos- 
pital Corps who enlisted in that corps, or who were trans- 
ferred from regiments still in service, will not be approved 
except under extraordinary circumstances. In forwarding 
all applications for discharge, surgeons will see that the date 
of enlistment or of transfer to the Hospital Corps is correctly 
stated, with character of the service of the applicant. 
Circular No. 45—October 27, 1898. 
324. 
Circular No. 52—December 1, 1898. 
Commutation op rations for nurses.—Inasmuch as fe- 
male nurses in general hospitals are, by section 1277, Revised 
Statutes, entitled to commutation of rations, it is ordered that 
commutation of rations will hereafter be allowed to all nurses, 
whether male or female or whether employed in general or 
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other hospitals, when they are granted leaves of absence by 
the officer in command or in charge of the hospital, the rate 
to be the same as that of enlisted men on furlough, that is, 
twenty-five cents per day.—[Decision Sec. War, Nov. 28, 
1898—162251 A. G. O.] 
325. 
Circular No. 53—December 8, 1898. 
Gratuitous issue of clothing.—Whenever articles of 
clothing of enlisted men have been destroyed or injured by 
disinfecting process to prevent contagion, a gratuitous issue 
of such articles of clothing will be made to the enlisted men 
to whom such clothing belonged, upon tlie certificate of the 
officer who has personal knowledge of the facts. — [Decision 
Asst. Sec. War—153825 A. G. O.] 
CIRCULARS FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT, SUR- 
GEON GENERAL’S OFFICE. 
326. 
Circular No. 1.—April 25, 1898. 
In time of war a great responsibility rests upon medical 
officers of the Army, for the result of a campaign may depend 
upon the sanitary measures adopted or neglected by com- 
manding generals of armies in the field. The medical officer 
is responsible for proper recommendations relating to the pro- 
tection of the health of troops in camp or in garrison, and it is 
believed that, as a rule, medical officers of the United’ States 
Army are well informed as to the necessary measures of 
prophylaxis and the serious results which infallibly follow a 
neglect of those measures, especially when unacclimated 
troops are called upon for service in a tropical or semitropical 
country during the sickly season. In Cuba our armies will 
have to contend not only with malarial fevers and the usual 
camp diseases—typhoid fever, diarrhea, and dysentery—but 
they will be more or less exposed in localities where yellow 
fever is endemic and under conditions extremely favorable for 
the development of an epidemic among unacclimated troops. In view of this danger, the attention of medical officers, and 
of all others responsible for the health of our troops in the 
field, is invited to the following recommendations: 
When practicable, camps should be established on high and 
well-drained ground not previously occupied. 
Sinks should he dug before a camp is occupied, or as soon 
after as practicable. The surface of fecal matter should be 
covered with fresh earth or quicklime or ashes three times a 
day. 
New sinks should he dug and old ones filled when contents 
of old ones are two feet from surface of ground. 
Every man should he punished who fails to make use of 
the sinks. 
All kitchen refuse should be promptly buried and perfect 
sanitary police maintained. 
Troops should drink only boiled or filtered water and coffee 
or tea (hot or cold), except where spring water can be obtained 
which is pronounced to be wholesome by a medical officer. 
Every case of fever should receive prompt attention. If 
albumin is found in the urine of a patient with fever it should 
be considered suspicious (of yellow fever) and he should be 
placed in an isolated tent. The discharges of patients with 
fever should always be disinfected at once with a solution of 
carbolic acid (5$) or of chloride of lime (6 oz. to gallon of 
water), or with milk of lime, made from fresh quicklime. 
Whenever a case of yellow fever occurs in camp the troops 
should be promptly moved to a fresh camping ground located 
a mile or more from infected camp. 
No doubt typhoid fever, camp diarrhea, and probably yel- 
low fever ;\re frequently communicated to soldiers in camp 
through the agency of flies, which swarm about fecal matter 
and filth of all kinds deposited upon the ground or in shallow 
pits, and directly convey infectious material, attached to their 
feet or contained in their excreta, to the food which is exposed 
while being prepared at the company kitchens or while being 
served in the mess tent. It is for this reason that a strict 
sanitary police is so important. Also because the water supply 
may be contaminated in the same way, or by surface drainage. 
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If it can be avoided, marches should not be made in the 
hottest part of the day—from 10 a. m. to 5 p. in. 
When called upon for duty at night or early in the morn- 
ing, a cup of hot coffee should be taken. 
It is unsafe to eat heartily or drink freely when greatly 
fatigued or overheated. 
Ripe fruit may be eaten in moderation, but green or over- 
ripe fruit will give rise to bowel complaints. Food should be 
thoroughly cooked and free from fermentation or putrefac- 
tive changes. 
In decidedly malarious localities from 3 to 5 grains of qui- 
nine may be taken in the early morning as a prophylactic, but 
the taking of quinine as a routine practice should only be 
recommended under exceptional circumstances. 
Light woolen underclothing should be worn, and when a 
soldier’s clothing or bedding becomes damp from exposure to 
rain or heavy dews the first opportunity should be taken to 
dry it in the sun or by fires. 
327. 
Memorandum—June 13, 1898. 
The attention of medical officers of the regular and volun- 
teer armies is invited to the following extracts from a letter 
addressed to the Surgeon General by Prof. Stanford E. Chaille 
of the Medical Department, Tulane University of Louisiana, 
New Orleans: 
“Instructions appear to have been issued to our soldiers for 
the preservation of health in the tropics, and I believe it well 
worth your consideration whether it would not be well to have 
disseminated among them information calculated to alleviate 
greatly their suffering from mosquitoes, fleas, and other in- 
sects, sufferings which often deprive soldiers of the sleep and 
rest which, with food, are the primary requisites for their 
efficiency. During our civil war many soldiers blessed me 
for the following information. 
‘ ‘ Mosquitoes, fleas, bedbugs, and I believe insects generally, 
detest and will avoid the essential oils and the plants which, 
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their odor. In New Orleans oil of lavender is used by many 
for relief from mosquitoes; a drop or two smeared on a hand 
or on any naked surface will protect until it dries up, say half 
an hour. While a Confederate surgeon I was in a town 
infested with fleas, and secured great relief by using freely in 
my boots and clothing and about my bed the bruised pen- 
nyroyal which grew abundantly within the town. 
“Smearing exposed parts with grease will protect from 
mosquitoes until the grease disappears. A small piece, say 
one or two inches square, of fat middling or bacon to smear 
on exposed parts is more efficient than essential oils because 
the grease does not dry up as soon, and would probably pro- 
tect during the usual hours of sleep if used at the beginning 
and repeated once during the night’s rest.” 
328. 
Circular No. 5—August 8, 1898. 
The attention of medical officers is invited to Circular No. 
1 from this office dated Washington, April 25, 1898. 
The extensive prevalence of typhoid fever in camps of in- 
struction indicates that the sanitary recommendations made 
in this circular have not been carried out. If medical officers 
have failed to make the proper recommendations as indicated, 
the responsibility rests with them. If the recommendations 
have been made and not acted upon by those having authority 
in the various camps, the responsibility is not with the 
Medical Department, but these recommendations should be 
repeated and commanding officers urged to move their camps 
at frequent intervals and to maintain a strict sanitary police. 
329. 
Chief surgeons of Army corps, of divisions, and of smaller 
independent commands are expected to make timely requisi- 
tion for medical supplies. It must be remembered that some 
delay is often unavoidable in putting up supplies at the supply 
depots and in their transportation to the point at which they 
are needed. In an unexpected emergency telegraphic requi- 
sition must be made and supplies will be sent by express; but 
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it must be remembered that this mode of transportation is 
very expensive and that failure to make requisition in advance 
of immediate needs entails unnecessary expense upon the 
Government. Division and field hospitals in which typhoid 
fever and other serious cases are treated should be liberally 
supplied with all articles necessary for the treatment and 
comfort of the sick. The field supply table applies only to 
mobile commands and division hospitals to accompany them 
on short notice. 
330. 
Circular No. 7—September 5, 1898. 
The attention of chief surgeons and of all medical officers 
on duty with troops in the field is called to the following 
paragraphs from the Manual for the Medical Department: 
92. When accumulations of organic material undergoing 
decomposition can not be removed or buried, they may be 
treated with an antiseptic solution, or with freshly-burned 
quicklime. Quicklime is also a valuable disinfectant, and 
may be substituted for the more expensive chloride of lime 
for disinfection of typhoid and cholera excreta, etc. For this 
purpose, freshly prepared milk of lime should be used, con- 
taining about 1 part, by weight, of hydrate of lime, to 8 of 
water. 
93. During the prevalence of an epidemic, or when there is 
reason to believe that infectious material has been introduced 
from any source, latrines and cesspools may be treated with 
milk of lime, in the proportion of 5 parts to 100 parts of the 
contents of the vault, and the daily addition of 10 parts for 
100 parts of daily increment of feces. 
Quicklime should be purchased in such quantities as may 
be necessary for the purpose of carrying out these instruc- 
tions, and vouchers sent to the Surgeon General of the Army 
for payment from the medical and hospital appropriation. 
3-31. 
Circular No. 8—September 17. 1898. 
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division and brigade surgeons of volunteers, and acting assist- 
ant surgeons, in the rendering of the personal reports required 
by A. R. 805. These reports are absolutely essential for the 
proper conduct of the business of the Surgeon General’s 
Office. They are to be made by information slip, on the last 
day of each month, or whenever an officer has a change of 
station or duty, the date of departure and arrival being given, 
together with a reference to the authority for the change and 
post-office address. 
332. 
Circular No. 9—October 10, 1898. 
Paragraph 185, Manual for the Medical Department, edition 
of 1898, requires civilian physicians who examine recruits for 
the Regular Army to make out an outline-figure card for every 
recruit sworn in. In the performance of this duty they will 
be guided by the instructions given in paragraphs 186 to 196 
of the Manual. As these cards form the basis of the work of 
identification, care should be taken to insure accuracy, com- 
pleteness, and legibility. The cards should be forwarded 
promptly on completion direct to the Surgeon General. No 
letter of transmittal is necessary. 
333. 
Circular No. 12—November 15, 1898. 
OUTFIT ALLOWANCE FOR A REGIMENTAL HOSPITAL. 
Case, surgeon’s field, one for each medical officer, two. 
Chest, medical, Nos. 1 and 2, of each, one. 
Chest, sterilizer, one. 
Chest, surgical, Nos. 1 and 2, of each, one. 
Filter, one. 
Pouch, Hospital Corps, one for each attendant, six. 
Pouch, orderly, one for each orderly, two. 
Lime, chloride, twelve bottles. 
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HOSPITAL STORES. 
Cream, condensed, twelve cans. 
Farina, i kilo, packages, six packages. 
Soap, castile, two kilos. 
Whisky, two bottles. 
Bedsacks, ten. 
Blanket cases, four. 
Blankets, twenty-five. 
Chest, commode, two. 
Chest, food, one. 
Chest, mess, two. 
Desk, field, one. 
Folding field furniture, one set, 
Mosquito bars, ten. 
Pajamas, twenty-five. 
Pillowcases, twenty-five. 
Pillows, feather, three. 
Pillows, hair, twelve. 
Sheets, fifty. 
FURNITURE, BEDDING, AND CLOTHING. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Basins, wash, hand, agate ware, four. 
Brooms, two. 
Buckets, agate, three in nest, three. 
Case, emergency, two. 
Corks, assorted, three dozen. 
Dippers, two. 
Envelopes for tablets, 5 by 6 cm., twenty dozen. 
First aid packets (as required). 
Funnels, tin, 250 c. c., one. 
Hatchet, one. 
Lanterns, four. 
Litters, four. 
Measure, graduated, glass, 250 c. c., one. 
Medicine glasses, two. 
Mortar and pestle, Wedgwood, 8 cm., one. 
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Pill tile, 12 to 25 cm., one. 
Saw, hand, small, one. 
Scales and weights, apothecary’s, one. 
Sheeting, rubber, ten meters. 
Spatulas (two sizes), two. 
Sponges, bath, two. 
Stoves, coal oil, two. 
Syringes, penis, glass, in case, twenty-four. 
Towels, hand, eight dozen. 
Vials, 30 c. c. , six dozen. 
Timely requisition should be made for renewal of medi- 
cines, dressings, and other articles expended. These requisi- 
tions must be sent to the chief surgeon of the brigade or 
division and, when practicable, should be promptly filled from 
the reserve supplies of the brigade or division hospital. When 
a regiment is so located that its sick can not be sent to a 
brigade, division, or general hospital, the regimental hospital 
will be expanded to meet the requirements of the case. Regi- 
ments or smaller independent commands in permanent camps 
or barracks will be supplied in accordance with the supply 
table published in the Manual for the Medical Department, 
pages 80 to 94. This supply table also applies to brigade and 
division hospitals in more or less permanent camps; but chief 
surgeons should see that articles not really necessary are not 
included in requisitions approved by them simply because 
they appear in the supply table. 
Medicines and other articles considered necessary for the 
treatment of the sick but not upon the supply table may be 
obtained upon special requisitions approved by the Surgeon 
General or by the chief surgeon of a military department. 
334. 
Circular No. 13—November 4, 1898. 
As it is desirable that the employment of female nurses 
with the Army should be placed on an exact and uniform 
basis, the following instructions are published for the guid- 
ance of medical officers: 
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When the services of female trained nurses are required at 
a hospital, application should be made to this office. They 
will be supplied by transfer or from the list of eligible appli- 
cants. Authority to make contracts, heretofore given in cer 
tain emergency cases, is hereby revoked, and it is not desired 
that the services of volunteer nurses be accepted. 
Officers having more nurses than are needed will annul con- 
tracts of unsatisfactory ones only, and report to this office 
without delay the number of desirable nurses available for 
transfer. 
Every change in the status of female nurses, such as arrival, 
departure, discharge, or death, should be reported by infor- 
mation slip on the day of its occurrence. 
335. 
Circular No. 14—November 7, 1898. 
INFORMATION FOR FEMALE CONTRACT NURSES IN THE U. S. 
ARMY. 
Contract and Duties.—The contract which is made by the 
Surgeon General with a female nurse for Army service is for 
an unlimited period. In signing this contract and taking the 
oath of office a nurse is understood to promise that she will per- 
form the important duties intrusted to her with unwavering 
devotion to the welfare of her patients and with the dignity 
of demeanor which is essential for Army service. Reports of 
each nurse are sent to the Surgeon General, and on these 
reports action is based. 
Pay.—While under contract a nurse receives $30 a month 
salary; payable either on pay rolls or vouchers. While nurs- 
ing at a hospital she receives also her lodging, board, and 
laundry of uniforms. Expenses incurred for these things by 
a nurse will not be refunded. 
Uniform.—No uniform for nurses has as yet been prescribed, 
but for the present a nurse is expected to furnish and wear 
such dresses, aprons, and caps as are usually considered 
suitable. MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
163 
Chief Nurse.—If the surgeon of a hospital so requests, the 
Surgeon General may appoint a chief nurse, whose duty it 
shall be to look after the welfare of all of the nurses in the 
hospital; to see that they are comfortable and that they re- 
ceive attention when ill; to assign each to her specific duty 
and see that the hours of such duty are strictly kept. She is 
also expected to have supervision of the general deportment 
of the nurses and to perform such other duties as the surgeon 
may direct, but not to undertake nursing herself. 
Traveling under Orders.—After signing the contract a nurse 
is subject to military discipline and must promptly obey any 
order given her. When traveling under orders she must not 
stop on the way. She must not, under any circumstances, 
leave her post or take any journey without written authority 
from the Surgeon General or from the surgeon under whom 
she is serving. When traveling under orders she will be fur- 
nished in advance with transportation. This means an order 
for her railway ticket and sleeping-car berth, which are 
exchanged by her at the station for regular tickets. 
Leaves.—A nurse will not receive pay for time absent from 
duty unless given by the surgeon—in writing —a sick leave or 
leave of absence “with pay.” This must be for a specified 
time, one week before the expiration of which the nurse must 
report in writing to the Surgeon General for orders, unless 
she already has orders to return to her former place of duty. 
Should her services not be needed at that time the Surgeon 
General may annul her contract. While on leave with pay 
the nurse is entitled to commutation of rations at the rate of 
25 cents per day. To obtain this she must, when she returns 
to duty, apply to the Surgeon, who will indorse her papers of 
leave and forward them to the nearest commissary. 
Leave of Absence. — When a nurse is granted leave of absence, 
at her own request, she does not receive pay for the time 
absent, unless the surgeon grants—in writing—a ‘ ‘ leave with 
pay,” which can not exceed ten days or be allowed soon after 
entering the service. As she is not traveling under orders 
she does not receive transportation. 
Sick Leave.—In case of sickness contracted in tlie line of 
duty, a nurse is entitled to medical attendance either in her 164 
quarters or at the nearest available Army hospital. But if 
she prefers to return home, or to some other hospital, the sur- 
geon may grant a sick leave with pay (for thirty days). If 
the surgeon also gives her written orders to proceed to her 
destination, she will then be entitled to transportation, as 
explained above. In such a case another nurse may, if neces- 
sary, be ordered to accompany her, and transportation fur- 
nished her also. If unable to return to duty at the end of the 
sick leave, a certificate from the attending physician stating 
this fact, and the probable date when the nurse will be fit for 
duty, must be forwarded to the surgeon granting the sick 
leave or to the Surgeon General, if she has no station. This 
certificate is sufficient to cover absence for the term specified 
therein. Bills for medical attendance can not, under the regu- 
lations be allowed. 
Transfer.—Transfers from one hospital to another are 
ordered only when the necessities of the service require it. 
The preference of a nurse is consulted whenever possible, but 
she is expected to remain at the hospital to which she is 
assigned so long as her services are needed there. Nurses 
who go to Puerto Rico or Cuba are expected to remain at least 
six months, if their services are satisfactory. 
Annulment of Contract.—The contract of a nurse may be 
annulled at any time by the Surgeon General or by his direc- 
tion. A nurse is not expected to request such annulment 
before the expiration of two months, unless able to give satis- 
factory reason therefor. 
Transportation, as above defined, is given on annulment of 
contract, except when “for misconduct or neglect of duty.” 
Transportation will be to place of making the contract, 
except that when made at the place of duty it will be fur- 
nished to the place designated in the contract as her residence. 
MANUAL FOR THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. INDEX. 
Figures in bold-faced type refer to paragraphs in the Manual; the letters A. R. and 
numbers following refer to paragraphs of the Army Regulations. 
Abandonment of Post: 
Disposition of medical property, 104, 
105. 
Accidents and Injuries: 
Classification, 159, 100. 
Accountability: 
Medical supplies, 74-77. 
Accounts: 
Medical attendance, A. R. 1452-1459. 
Acting Assistant Surgeons: 
Uniform of, 300,317. 
See Contract Surgeons, also Civilian Phy- 
sicians. 
Acting Hospital Stewards: 
Detailed in time of war, 30 (c), 291. 
Examination, A. R. 1397. 
Field service, A. R. 1421. 
Quota for posts, etc., A.R. 1409,1411. 
Rank and precedence, A. R. 9. 
Reenlistments, A. R. 1404. 
Revocation of detail, A. R. 1402. 
See also under Hospital Stewards. 
Admission to Hospital: 
Date, source, and causes of, 139-144. 
Aid societies, funds and supplies fur- 
nished by, 308. 
Alterations: 
See under Hospitals, Quarters. 
Ambulances and Litters: 
Allowance, control, etc., 18 (e), 37, 
316, A.R. 1414-1419. 
Field service, 18 (e), A.R. 1422. 
Flags and guidons, A. R. 214. 
Service in war, A. R. 1396. 
Ambulance Train: 
Property issued to, 288. 
Amputating Case: 
Contents, 244. 
Antiseptics: 
Disinfectant, 91. 
Supply table, 202. 
Antiseptics and Disinfectants: 
For field hospital use, 273. 
Apparatus: 
New designs to be reported, 7 3. 
Appointments: 
Hospital stewards and acting hospital 
stewards, 291, A. It. 1397. 
Surgeons and assistant surgeons, 1-5, 
A.R. 1394. 
Arms: 
Issue to hospital corps, 33. 
Patients in hospital, A. R. 1438. 
Army Dispensaries: 
Fuel and stoves, A. R. 1006. 
Medicines, A. It. 1450, 1451-1455. 
Army Medical Museum: 
Contributions invited, 115, A. R. 1130. 
List of articles desired, 115. 
Transportation of donations, A. R. 1130. 
Army Medical School: 
Course of instruction, 7, 10. 
Examinations, 9. 
Inspection, A. R. 869. 
Letter and note heading, A. R. 512. 
Location and faculty, 6. 
Organization, etc., A.R.40S. 
Purchase of books and instruments, 10. INDEX. 
Army Medical School—Continued. 
Regulations, 10. 
Responsibility, instruments, etc., 10. 
Student officers, 7. 
Uniform prescribed, 10. 
Use of laboratory and library, 10. 
Army and Navy General Hospital: 
Admission, etc., 42 (a), A. R. 155. 
Admission of discharged soldiers and 
sailors, 42, 42 (a), 44 (e). 
Cadets, charge for subsistence, 44 («), 
44 (!>). 
Civil employees, 43 (a). 
Control, 42. 
Enlisted men, admission, 48 (e). 
Enlisted men, allotment accommoda- 
tions, 48 (d). 
Enlisted men, commutations, 44 (c). 
Enlisted men, discharge, 49. 
Enlisted men on furlough, subsistence, 
44(d). 
Enlisted men retired, subsistence, 44 (e). 
Limits, admission or continuance, 48. 
Money accountability, 40. 
Monthly returns, subsistence, 47. 
Officers, admission, 48. 
Officers, limit continuance, 48 (f>), 48 (c). 
Officers, subsistence charges, 44, 44 (a), 
44 (6). 
Organization, 43. 
Retired officers, 48 (c). 
Selection of cases for admission, 50. 
Subsistence stores for messes, 45. 
Venereal cases not admitted, 51. 
Army Regulations amended, 290, 298, 
311,314. 
Articles: 
Issued by Ordnance Department, 204. 
Issued by Quartermaster’s Department, 
203. 
Supply depots, expended and on hand, 
124. 
Artificial Limbs and Appliances: 
Application for, 198. 
Classes entitled, A. R. 1467. 
Commutation, A. R. 1467. 
Information slips, 125. 
Transportation of applicants, A. R. j 
1468-1471. 
Aseptic Pocket Case; 
Contents, 229. 
Aspirating Case: 
Contents, 215. 
Assignment Cards: 
Of recruits for hospital corps, 30 (h). 
Assignment, Medical Officers: 
Allowance to a post, 11. 
Attending surgeons, 13. 
Field service, 18. 
Office hours, 14. 
Tour of duty, 12. 
Assistant Surgeons: 
Examination and appointment, A. R. 
1394. 
Travel allowance, A. R 1395. 
See also under Medical Officers. 
Attendance, Medical: 
See Medical Attendance. 
Attending Surgeons: 
Assignment, etc., 13, 14. 
Bacon, Fat: 
Protective against insects, 327. 
Bacteriological Se : 
Issue and use, 103. 
Parts, 248. 
Barracks and (Quarters: 
Provision for, in large camps, 302. 
Medical officers, A. R. 985. 
Surgeons’ visits, A. R. 201. 
Battlefields: 
Care of sick and wounded, A. R. 1423. 
Bed Bugs: 
Protection from, 327. 
Bed Screens: 
Requisitions, 101 (a) 
Bedding: 
Disinfection, 91 (a). 
Disposition, abandonment of post, 104, 
For field hospitals, 277. 
For regimental hospitals, 333. 
Births: 
Reported, 158. INDEX. 
167 
Blank Forms: 
In field desk, 259. 
Information slips, 125. 
List issued, 199, A. R, 1552. 
Supplied by chiefs of bureaus, A. R. 
1552. 
Blankets: 
Care, 85. 
Board of Examination: 
Appointment of hospital stewards, etc., 
21, 22. 
Hospital corps, A. R. 1397, 
Promotion, medical officers, 15. 
Surgeons and assistant surgeons, A. R. 
1394. 
Board of Health: 
Notified of epidemics, 120. 
Bookcases, Portable: 
Requisition, 101. 
Books: 
In field desk, 259. 
Books, Medical: 
Authority to take from hospital, 84 (a). 
Disposition, abandoned post, 104. 
Requisition for new, 106. 
Books, Record: 
See Record Books. 
Bottles and Jars: 
Dispensing set, 211. 
Bougies: 
Preservation, 88. 
Brigade: 
Chief Surgeon of, 18. 
Cadets and Cadet Candidates: 
Physical examination for appointment, 
181, 182. 
Camps: 
Sanitation of, 326, 328. 
Canvas: 
Issue for litters, 89. 
Capital Operating Case: 
Contents, 216. 
Carbolic Acid: 
Issue and use as disinfectant, 91 (a). 
Cases: 
Amputating, 244. 
Aspirating, 215. 
Bacteriological set, 248. 
Capital operating, 216. 
Chemical set, 2411. 
Compressed air apparatus, 212. 
Dental, 217. 
Dissecting, 233. 
Emergency, 218. 
Exsecting, 245. 
Eye and ear, 219. 
Field, 220. 
Field operating, 221. 
General operating, 246. 
Genito-urethral ,224. 
Genito-urinary, 225. 
Hmmostatic forceps, 232, 233. 
Hypodermic syringe, 240. 
Inhaler and vaporizer, 237. 
Microscopes, 238. 
Minor operating, 227. 
Obstetrical and gynecological, 228 
Pocket, aseptic, 229. 
Pocket, personal, 230. 
Pocket, post, 231. 
Post-mortem, 232. 
Restraint apparatus, 213. 
Spray-producing apparatus, 214. 
Stomach pump, 234. 
Surgical pump, 239. 
Thermo-cautery, 241. 
Tooth-extracting, 235. 
Trial lenses, 236. 
Typewriter, 242. 
Urethral, 226. 
Vision-test, 243. 
Casualties: 
List of wounded, A. R. 1466. 
Catheters: 
Preservation, 88. 
Certificates: 
Hospital stewards’ professional books, 
A, R. 1122. 
Medical, A. R. 00-02. 
Medical attendance, medicines, etc., 
A. R. 1453-1455. 168 
Certificates of Disability: 
Admission to Soldiers’ Home, A. R. 174. 
Blank forms and instructions, A. R. 154. 
Degree of disability, A. R. 155, 157. 
Discharge of enlisted men, A. R. 140, 
141. 
Insane soldiers, A. R. 470. 
Line of duty, 297. 
Permanent disability, A. R. 154. 
Records and reports of disease, A. R. 
155. 
Recruits, A. R. 844, 847. 
Report to medical officers of discharge, 
A. R. 156. 
Volunteers, disability prior to enlist- 
ment, 297. 
See also Surgeon's Certificates. 
Cesspools: 
Disinfection of, 330. 
Change of Station: 
Medical officers, A. R. 738. 
Chemical Set: 
Issue and use, 103. 
Parts, 249. 
Chests: 
Commode, 258. 
Food, 257. 
Medical, 254. 
Mess, 256. 
Surgical, 255. 
Tool, 251. 
Chevrons: 
Service for hospital corps, 292. 
Chief Surgeons: 
Detail and duties, 16, 17, 18, A. R. 
196, 1465. 
Field hospitals, 38. 
Hospital corps, 16, A. R. 1408. 
Hospital fund, 55-58. 
Hospital property, 84 (a). 
Medical supplies, 65-70. 
Record books, 17. 
Reports and returns, A. R. 1464-1466. 
Travois and mule litters, A. R. 1418. 
Chlorid of Lime: 
Disinfectant, 91 (a). 
INDEX. 
Cholera: 
Reported, lift, 1 -20. 
Chronic Complaints: 
Treatment, A. R. 1456. 
Circulars: 
Information slips, 125. 
Civilians: 
Admission to hospital, A. R. 1446,1447. 
Medical attendance, 60. 
Medical and hospital supplies, A. R. 
1444. 
Civil Employees: 
Admission to hospital, A. R. 1445-1447. 
Artificial limbs and appliances, A. R. 
1467-1471. 
Medical attendance and medicines, 61, 
A. R. 1450. 
Medical and hospital supplies, A. R. 
1444. 
Purchases from subsistence department, 
298. 
Rations, 298. 
Civilian Physicians: 
Employment, payment, etc., A. R. 1452, 
1453, 1456, 1458, 1450. 
Examination of recruits by, 172, 17 3. 
Recruiting officer authorized to em- 
ploy, 293. 
Reports rendered by, 118. 
See also Contract Surgeons. 
Cleaning Mixtures: 
Hospital stores not issued for preparing, 
84 (d). 
Clinical Thermometers: 
Information slips, 125. 
Issue, loss, etc., 98. 
Clothing: 
Disposition, abandonment of post, 104. 
Drawn in hospital, 300. 
Field hospitals, 277. 
Gratuitous issue, 325. 
Infected, A. R. 708, 1441. 
Inspection by medical officer, A. R. 1393. 
Regimental hospitals, 333. 
Clothing accounts, 318. INDEX. 
Clothing Book: 
' Use and disposition, 122. 
Colors: 
Hospital and ambulance, A. R. 214. 
See also Flags. 
Commissaries of subsistence at general 
hospitals, 310. 
Commode Chest: 
Contents, 258, 285. 
Commutation of Rations: 
Men on sick furlough, 300. 
Nurses, contract, 324. 
Company Bearers: 
A. R. 1412, 1413. 
Completed Cases: 
Report field register, 147. 
Compressed-air Apparatus: 
Case, 212. 
Contagious Diseases: 
Infected clothing, A. R. 708. 
Issue of clothing, A. R. 1194, 1442. 
Medical and hospital property, A. R. 
1441. 
Patients and hospital attendants, A. R. 
1442. 
Reported, 119, 120. 
Contract Nurses: 
Commutation of rations, 324. 
Female, information for, 335. 
Contract Surgeons: 
Baggage, A. R. 1119, 1121. 
Fuel, A. R. 999. 
Quarters, A. R. 994. 
Reports rendered by, 118. 
Returns, by chief surgeon, A. R. 1464. 
See also Civilian Physicians. 
Convalescents on Furlough: 
Diet of, 307. 
Cooks, Hospital: 
Pay, 58. 
Corps: 
Chief surgeon of, 18. 
Cosmetics: 
Hospital stores not to be issued for pre- 
paring, 84 (d). 
Crutches: 
Transfer with patients, 53. 
Curtains, Window: 
See Window Curtains. 
Deaths: 
Contract physicians, hospital stewards, 
etc., reported, 1*21. 
Entered on register, 145. 
Officers or men, information from rec- 
ords, A. It. 803. 
Officers, report of, 118, 121, A. It. 81. 
Deceased Officers: 
Accounts, medical attendance, etc., 
A. It. 1450. 
Deceased Soldiers: 
Accounts, medical attendance, A. It. 
1450. 
Dying in hospitals, A. R. 1439. 
Report death and burial, A. R. 102. 
Dental Case: 
Contents, 217. 
Deodorants: 
Use of, 91 (a), 91 (6). 
Desertions: 
Reports of, 118. 
Descriptive and Deposit Book: 
Reports on, 122. 
Descriptive Cards: 
Recruits for ho;pital corps, 30 (li). 
Descriptive Lists: 
Patients in hospital, A. R. 1439. 
Desk, Field: 
Contents, 259. 
Diagnosis: 
Enlisted men on sick report, A. R. 1432. 
Diet of Sick: 
In hospitals, money allowance for, 
301, 308. 
On furlough, 308. 
Disability of Enlisted Men: 
Permanent and temporary, A. R. 154. 
155. 
Of volunteers, prior to enlistment, 297. 
Of volunteers, at muster out, 304. 
8535 22 170 
INDEX. 
Discharge: 
For disability entered on register, 145. 
Surgeons’ certificate of disability, 162. 
Discharge, Enlisted Men: 
Reasons for, 318. 
Disability, A. R. 140, 141, 154-157. 
Hospital corps, 291. 
Hospital corps, transfers from volun- 
teers, 323. 
Hospital stewards, A. R. 931. 
Insane soldiers, A. R. 470. 
Patients in hospital, A. R. 1439. 
Recruits, disability, A. R. 822. 
Volunteers, disability prior to enlist- 
ment, 297. 
Discharged Soldiers: 
Hospital treatment, A. R. 1440. 
Reenlistment of, 166. 
Discharged Soldiers and Sailors: 
Admission to Army and Navy General 
Hospital, 42, 42(a), 44(e). 
Diseases: 
Chronic, A. R. 1456. 
Contagious, A. R. 708, 1194,1441, 1442. 
Nomenclature, sick reports, 159, 160. 
Record and report of treatment, etc., 
A. R. 155. 
Disinfectants: 
Issue and use, 91(a), 330. 
Regimental hospitals, 333. 
Routine use prohibited, 91, A. R. 1462. 
Supply table, 202. 
Disinfection: 
Clothing injured by, 325. 
Fever cases, 326. 
Dispensing Set: 
Bottles and jars, 211. 
Dissecting Case: 
Contents, 233. 
Division: 
Chief surgeon of, 18. 
Division Commanders: 
To furlough sick, 303. 
I»oor Screens: 
Requisitions, 101. 
Drains: 
Disinfection, 91 (b). 
Dressings: 
Disposition, abandoned posts, 104. 
Dressings, Sterilized: 
See Sterilized Dressings. 
Drill Regulations: 
Hospital corps, 34. 
Duties of Medical Officers: 
In the field, 18. 
Duty, Return to: 
Entered on register, 145. 
Emergency Case: 
Contents, 218. 
Employees: 
Supply depot record, 124. 
Enlistment Papers: 
Hospital corps recruits, 291, 30 (b), A. 
R. 1398, 1400. 
Epidemics: 
Milk of lime as disinfectant, 93. 
Reported, 119, 120. 
Transfers of hospital corps, A. R. 1406. 
Equipments, Horse: 
Furnished by, 294. 
Estimates: 
Hospitals, A. R. 1426,1428. 
Examination: 
Hospital stewards and acting hospital 
stewards, 20, A. R. 1397. 
Recruits, see under Recruits. 
Examination for Promotion: 
Rules, 15. 
Excreta: 
Disinfection of typhoid or cholera, 92. 
Exsccting Case: 
Contents, 245. 
Eye and Ear Case: 
Contents, 219. INDEX. 
Families: 
Officers and soldiers’, medical attend 
ance, etc., A. B. 1450,1456. 
Field Appliances: 
Use and care, 95-97. 
Field Case: 
Contents, 220. 
Surgeons’, 270. 
Field Desk: 
Contents, 259, 286. 
Field Equipment: 
Army medical department, 294. 
Hospital corps, 31-33. 
New designs to be reported, 73. 
Begimental hospitals, 316, 333. 
Field Furniture: 
Set of, 260, 287. 
Use at posts, 95. 
Field Hospitals: 
Duties of surgeon in charge, 18. 
In action, 37, 38. 
Beturn to duty of sick from, 300. 
Supplies, 272. 
Field Operating Case: 
Contents, 221, 282. 
Field Register: 
Cases borne on, 147-154. 
Field Service:- 
Begimental hospital in, 316. 
Field Supply Table: 
Itemized list, 265-290. 
Figure Cards, Outline: 
See Outline-figure Cards. 
Final Payments: 
Officers, 304. 
Final Statements: 
Instructions concerning, 318. 
Patients discharged from hospital, A 
B. 1439. 
First Aid: 
Instruction* In, 34, 35. 
First-aid Packets: 
Allowance, 97. 
Expendable, 97. 
First-aid Stations: 
Supervision of, 18. 
First-dressing Stations: 
Wounded in action, 87, 38. 
Flags: 
Hospital and ambulance, A. B. 214. 
See also Colors. 
Fleas: 
Protection from, 327. 
Flies: 
Propagation of disease by, 326. 
Folding Field Furniture: 
Set, 260, 287. 
Food Chest: 
Contents, 257, 284. 
Fruit: 
Cautions concerning use, 326. 
Funds: 
Hospital, A. B. 300, 315, 1440-1448. 
Subsistence, 301. 
See also Hospital Fund. 
Furloughs, Sick: 
Granted by, 300, 303, 313, 321. 
Transportation for, 319. 
Furniture: 
Operating room, 209. 
Bepairs, 78. 
Furniture and Bedding: 
Begimental hospital, 333. 
Supply table, 207, 277. 
General Operating Case: 
Contents, 246. 
Geneva Convention: 
Articles, 200. 
Genito-Urethral Case: 
Contents, 224. 
Genito-Urinary Case: 
Contents, 225. 172 
INDEX. 
Government Hospital for the Insane: 
Admission and release of patients, A. 
R. 469-473. 
Transfer to, from hospitals, 131. 
Gratuitous Issue: 
Contagious diseases, A. R. 1194,1442. 
Grease: 
Protective against insects, 327. 
Guardhouses: 
Visits of surgeon, A. R, 201. 
Haemostatic Forceps Case: 
Contents, 222, 223. 
Hernia: 
Surgical treatment, 161. 
Horses and Horse Equipments: 
Allowances of, 294. 
Hospitals: 
Accounts, A. R. 1457. 
Alterations, A. R. 1426-1429. 
Attendants, A. R. 1442. 
Charges, A. R. 1447. 
Civilian employees at post, A. R. 1444, 
1445. 
Civilians at post, A. R. 1446. 
Commissary of subsistence, 310. 
Construction, etc., buildings, A. R. 
1424-1430. 
Diet of patients in, 301, 308. 
Division, brigade, or field, 37, 38. 
Flags, A. R. 214. 
Fuel and stoves, A. R. 1006. 
Furloughs. 300, 321. 
Ilospita. corps, A. R. 1435,1436. 
Illuminating supplies, A. R. 1012-1019, 
1021,1022. 
Inspections, A. R. 1435. 
Kitchens, A, R. 1006. 
Library, A. R. 1449. 
Management, A. R. 1435. 
Matrons, A. R. 1436,1437. 
Mess rooms, A. It. 1006. 
Muster and pay rolls, A. R. 784,785. 
Property and stores, A. R. 973, 1441, 
1443,1450,1456. 
Quartermaster, 294, 309. 
Hospitals—Continued. 
Regimental, equipment, 311, 333. 
Register of patients, 127, 131. 
Report of estimates and repairs, 1 1 S. 
Report of sick and wounded, 155-1 5N. 
Return to duty from, 300. 
Sales of subsistence supplies, A. R. 1282. 
Savings of rations, A. R. 1269. 
Service in garrison, A, R. 1396. 
Sick in, A. R. 266, 300, 785, 1269, 1431, 
1432,1438-1440,1442. 
Supervision and control, A. R. 1433. 
Surgeons, post, and assistants, A. R. 201, 
1435,1436. 
Surgeon’s visit, A. R. 201. 
Transports, boats, and railway trains 
A. R. 1434. 
Hospital Bedding: 
Unauthorized use, 84 (6). 
Hospital Building: 
Care of floors, 30. 
Instruments, etc., 41. 
Laboratory, 41. 
Operating room, 41. 
Repair, 40, A. R. 1424-1430. 
Hospital Clothing: 
Disinfection, 54. 
Transfer, 58. 
Hospital Corps: 
Acting stewards, A. R. 1397, 1409, 1411, 
1421. 
Appliances for transporting sick and 
wounded, A. R. 1414-1419,1422. 
Arms in Indian wars, 33. 
Assignment to duty, A. R. 1409-1411, 
1436. 
Ceremonies, A. R. 1405. 
Details and assignments of, 30 (/), 30 
(</), 30 (5), 291. 
Discharge, 201, 323. 
Drill regulations, 34. 
Enlistment, reenlistment, etc., 201, A. 
R. 1398-1400, 1404. 
Extra-duty details, enlisted men, A. R. 
167. 
Field equipments, 31. 
Field service, A. R. 1420-1423. 
Fund of a detachment, A. R. 300. INDEX. 
Hospital Corps—Continued. 
Hospital and ambulance flags, A. R. 214. 
In action, 37, 38. 
Information slips, 125. 
Inspections, 16, A. It. 1405,1435. 
Instruction of privates, A. R. 1399. 
Means of transportation, A. It. 1408. 
Military duties, A. R. 1405. 
Monthly reports of, 30 (d), 291. 
Muster and pay rolls, A. R. 784. 
Musters, A. It. 1405. 
Pay and clothing accounts, A. It. 1407. 
Pouch, 252, 267. 
Precedence of, ceremonies, A. R. 6. 
Privates, A. R. 1397,1410,1411,1413,1421. 
Quota of, for an army corps, 30 (e), 291. 
Rations, A. It. 1259. 
Regulations in time of war, 291. 
Returns, monthly, 118, A. R. 1408. 
Saving of rations, A. R. 1269. 
Service, A. It. 1396. 
Service chevrons, 292. 
Stewards, A. R. 1397,1409,1411,1421. 
Transfer of members, A. R. 1406. 
Transfer to, of enlisted men, A. R. 1403. 
Transfer to, from volunteers, 30,291, 
316. 
Uniform of, 292. 
Use of hospital bedding, 84 (5). 
Hospital Duty: 
Details for, 305. 
Hospital Fund: 
Application of, 308. 
Cooks, pay of, 58. 
Information slips, expenditures, 125. 
Loss of, 57. 
Purchases from, 56. 
Reports and returns, 55, 118. 
See also A. R.300,315,1446-1448. 
Hospital Libraries: 
Publications for, A. R. 1449. 
Hospital Matrons: 
Information slips, 125. 
Laundry work, 36. 
Not entitled to hospital stores, 84 (e). 
Rations for, 298. 
See also A. R. 784,1006,1259,1269,1436, 
1437,1450. 
Hospital Pouch: 
Contents, 252, 267. 
Hospital Property: 
Use, authorized, 84-89. 
Use, unauthorized, 84 (a). 
See also A. It. 973, 1441,1443,1450,1450. 
Hospital Service: 
Clothing, care, 53. 
Crutches, etc., on transfer, 53. 
Disinfection of clothing, 54. 
Transfer of patient, 52. 
See also A. It. 1396. 
Hospital Stewards: 
Allotment to posts, 28. 
Allowance of, 295. 
Application for position, 19. 
Appointments in time of war, 30, 291. 
Authority for reenlistment, 24. 
Baggage, A. It. 1119. 
Deaths reported, 121. 
Discharge and reenlistment, 24, A. It. 
931. 
Duties, 23. 
Examination and appointment, 19, 
20, A. It. 1397. 
Field service, A. R. 1421. 
Graduates in pharmacy, 26. 
Information slips, 27. 
Instruction by medical officers, 29. 
Personal reports, A. R. 1401. 
Physical defects, 26. 
Professional books, etc., A. R. 1122. 
Qualifications, A. R. 1397. 
Quarters, fuel, etc., 118, 125, A. R. 
1006, 1010, 1427, 1428. 
Quota for posts, etc., A. R. 1409,1411. 
Rank and precedence, A. R. 9. 
Reduction, A. R. 1402. 
Reduction to the ranks, A. R. 931. 
Reenlistment, A. R. 1398. 
Reexamination for reenlistment, 24. 
Sleeping cars, A. R. 1109. 
Trial by courts-martial, A. It. 931. 
Volunteer regiments, 30 (/), 295. 
Hospital Stores: 
Supply table, 203,274. 
Regimental hospitals, 333. 
See also A. R. 973,1441,1443,1450,1456. 174 
INDEX. 
Hypodermic Syringe: 
Parts, 240. 
Ice: 
Gratuitous issue prohibited, 113. 
Sale, etc., 113. 
Ice Fund: 
Authorized purchases from, 111. 
Transfer, 114. 
Ice Machine: 
Gratuities to employees, 111. 
Issue and accountability, 109-114. 
Management, etc., 110. 
Not for convenience of garrison, 109. 
Use of fund for maintenance, 111. 
Indian Scouts: 
Examination for enlistment, 178. 
Indian Wars: 
Arms for hospital corps, 33. 
Indorsement Book: 
Use and disposition, 122. 
Information Slips: 
Kind and use, 125. 
Inhaler and Vaporizer Case: 
Contents, 237. 
Insane: 
Patients in hospital, 131. 
See also under Government Hospital for 
the Insane. 
Insects: 
Protection from, 327. 
Inspections: 
Hospital corps and hospitals, A. R 
1405,1427,1435. 
Medical, A. R. 1393, 1405. 
Medical property, 296. 
Instruction in First Aid : 
Hospital corps, 34, 35, A. R. 1399. 
Instruments: 
Abandoned posts, 104. 
Authority for taking away, 84 (a). 
Condition to be reported, 76. 
Examined monthly, 77. 
Receipts for, 72. 
Repair, 76. 
Responsibility for, 74 (a). 
Instruments, Meteorological: 
See Meteorological Instruments. 
Inventories: 
Condemned property, 296. 
Invoices: 
Packages, supplies turned over to 
Quartermaster’s Department, 124. 
Issues: 
Hospital stores, A. R. 1450. 
Supply depot, 124. 
Journals, Medical: 
Abandoned post, 108. 
Belong to hospital or station, 108. 
Killed, Wounded, or Missing: 
Field register, 150. 
Kitchen: 
Hospital, A. R. 1000. 
Disposal of refuse, 326. 
Laboratory: 
Post hospitals, 41. 
Lanterns, Red: 
Dressing stations, 38. 
Laundry Appliances: 
Not supplied to post hospitals, 86. 
Laundry Work: 
Payment, 36. 
Lavender, Oil of: 
Protection against insects, 327. 
Leaves of Absence: 
Sick, A. R. 60-64,997, 90S, 1315,1337. 
Female nurses, 335. 
Letter-press Book: 
Use and disposition, 122. 
Letters-received Book: 
Use and disposition, 122, 124. 
Library: 
Books in Wood’s standard, 250. 
Hospital, A. R. 1449. 
Surgeon General’s office, use, 107. 
Line of Duty: 
Entry on register, 143, 144. 
On certificates of disability, 297. 
Litters: 
Allowance of, 294. 
Issue of canvas for, 89. INDEX 
175 
Litter Bearers: 
Instruction in first aid, 34. 
Lye: 
Not issued for laundry purposes, 84 (c). 
Mailing Tubes: 
• Issued, 199. 
Marches: 
Care of sick and wounded, A. R. 1423. 
In Cuba, 326. 
Marriages: 
Reports, 158. 
Matrons: 
See Hospital 3Iatrons. 
Matting: 
For use in hospitals, 87. 
Medical Attendance: 
Accounts, A. R. 1452-1459. 
Citizens residing near posts, 60. 
Civilian physicians, A. R. 1452, 1453, 
1456,1458,1459. 
Civilian employees, post exchange, 61. 
Indians, A. R.480. 
Medical officers, A. R. 1450,1451. 
Officers’ families and servants, 59. 
Medical Boards: 
For disability prior to enlistment, 297. 
Medical Books: 
See Books, Medical. 
Medical Certificates: 
Sick leave, officers’, A. R. 60-62. 
See also Certificates of Disability and 
Suraeons’ Certificates. 
Medical Chest: 
Contents, 254, 265, 266. 
Inspection, 96. 
Contents not to be used at posts, 96. 
Medical History of Post: 
Reports, births, and marriages, 158. 
Use and disposition, 122. 
Medical Inspections and Examina- 
tions: 
Accounts, A. It. 1458. 
Hospital corps recruits, A. R. 1399. 
Posts and reservations, A. R. 1465. 
Recruits, A. R. 842-848,1458. 
Medical Journals: 
See Journals, Medical. 
Medical Museum: 
Transportation of donations, A. R. 
1130. 
Medical Officers: 
Ambulance company, duties, 18. 
Ambulances, 37, A. R. 1076,1415. 
Army medical school,6-10, A. R. 468. 
Arrests, etc., A. R. 900. 
Assignment of, in field service, 18. 
Assistant surgeons, A. R. 1394. 
Barracks and quarters, A. R. 985. 
Casualty returns, A. R. 1466. 
Changes of station, A. R. 738. 
Clothing accounts, hospital corps, A. 
R. 1407. 
Contract surgeons, A. R. 994, 999, 1119, 
1121,1464. 
Department staff, A. R. 196. 
Deserters, 118, A. R. 121,123. 
Detail duties, etc., A. R. 201, 203, 1393, 
1435,1436. 
Diagnosis furnished, A. R. 1432. 
Eligibility to command, A. R. 18. 
Enlistments, hospital corps, A. R. 1399. 
Examination boards for promotion, 
15, A.R.25. 
Field service, 37, 38, A. R. 1420,1421. 
First-aid treatment, 34, 35, A. R. 1413. 
Fuel and stoves for office, A. R. 1006. 
General hospitals, A. R. 1433. 
General prisoners, A. R. 914. 
Hospital buildings, 37, 38, 39-41, 
118, A. R. 1424,1426- 428. 
Hospital corps, privates, 31-38,118, 
125, A. 11.1416. 
Hospital fund, 55-58, 118, 125, A. 
R. 1448. 
Hospital transports, A. R, 1434. 
Insane soldiers, 131, A. R, 470. 
Invalid soldiers, A. R. 1109. 
Litter bearer, 34, A. R. 1413. 
Medical and hospital supplies, A. R. 
1444. 
Medical attendance, 60, 61, A. R. 1450, 
1451. 
Medical chests, 96, 254, A. R. 1122. 176 
INDEX. 
Medical Officers—Continued. 
Muster and pay rolls, A. R. 784. 
Patients in hospital, A. R. 1432, 1439. 
Pay, etc., hospital corps, A. R. 1407. 
Personal reports, 331. 
Post, A. R. 201, 203, 470, 985,1006, 1013, 
1393, 1402, 1403, 1407, 1408, 1412, 
1413, 1415, 1420, 1424, 1426-1428, 
1431, 1432, 1435, 1436, 1439, 1448. 
Post, noncommissioned staff, A. R. 95. 
Quarters for hospital stewards, A. R. 
1426-1428. 
Record and reports of treatment, A. R. 
155. 
Recruits, 172, 173, A. R. 842-845,847, 
848. 
Reports to, discharges for disability, 
A. R. 156. 
Responsibilities in time of war, 326. 
Returns of, by chief surgeons, A. R. 
1464. 
Sick call, A. R. 1431. 
Sick leaves, officers, A. R. 60-62. 
Surgeons, A. R. 22, 196, 1394, 1395, 
1408, 1418, 1464-1466. 
Transfers to hospital corps, A. R. 1403. 
Volunteer regiments, 311, 320. 
Medical Property: 
Accountability for, 315. 
Abandoned posts, 104, 105. 
Condemnation of, 296, 311. 
Supply depots, returns, 123. 
Use of, 84-89. 
Yearly report, 118. 
See also Medical Supplies. 
Medical School: 
See Army Medical School. 
Medical Supplies: 
Accountability, 74, 77. 
Annual returns, 79. 
Booksandpublications, R. 1449,1463. 
Broken packages, invoice, 79 (c). 
Camps and subposts, 67 (c). 
Chests, A. R. 1122. 
Condition of articles, 74 (a). 
Damaged or unserviceable, A. R. 1463. 
Defective articles, 73. 
Disinfectants, A. R. 1462. 
Medical Supplies—Continued. 
Emergency requisitions, 70. 
Enumerated in supply table, 04. 
Epidemics, 70 («). 
Funds, requests, 03. 
Hospital, A. It. 1422, 1441, 1443, 1444, 
1440. 
Inspection of requisitions, 07 (a). 
Instruments and appliances, 70, 77. 
Invoice voucher of transfer, 7 ], 
Interlineations aud erasures, returns, 
79 (6). 
Medicines, A. R. 480, 1450-1456. 
Metric system, A. R. 1461. 
Oral agreement purchases, A. R. 566. 
Packer’s lis t 71. 
Posts, small, sub and temporary, 07 (6)- 
07 (d). 
Purchases, 62-80, A.R.566, 569, 1460. 
Receipts for instruments, 72. 
Removal of articles from posts, 80. 
Repair of instruments, 70. 
Repair of furniture, 78. 
Requisitions, 62, 70, 329. 
Returns, 79 (5). 
Special requisitions, 113, 329. 
Supervision, 65-70. 
Transportation by quartermaster’s de- 
partment, A. R.973. 
Unexpendable articles, 75. 
Unserviceable articles, 72, A. R. 1463. 
Medicines: 
Abandonment of post, 104. 
Accounts, A. R. 1454, 1455. 
Civilians, issue, 11S. 
Exchange of, with druggists, forbid- 
den, 84 (e). 
Families and servants, A. R, 1456. 
I udians, A. R. 480. 
Not on supply table, how obtain ed, 3 33. 
Officers and men not on duty, A. R. 
1456. 
Purchased from druggists, A. R. 1452, 
1455. 
Regimental supplies of, 18. 
Retired officers and enlisted men, A. R. 
1451. 
Supply table, 201. INDEX. 
177 
Mercuric Clilorid: 
Disinfectant, 91 (a). 
Mess Chest: 
Contents, 256, 283. 
Mess Rooms: 
Hospital, A. K. 1006. 
Messing and Cooking: 
Use of hospitals for, A. R. 1430. 
Meteorological Instruments: 
Issue, use, loss, etc., 99. 
Observations with, 100. 
Meteorological Report: 
Monthly, 118. 
Metric System: 
Medical supplies, A. It. 1461. 
Microscopes: 
Accessories, supply table, 204. 
Parts, 238. 
Milk of Lime: 
Disinfectant, 92, 93. 
Minor Operating Case: 
Contents, 227. 
Miscellaneous Articles: 
Supply table, 208. 
Moneys Received and Disbursed 
Record book, 124. 
Mosquitoes: 
Protection from, 327. 
Movements of Troops: 
Sick and wounded, A. R. 1081. 
Museum, Medical: 
See Medical Museum. 
Musters: 
Hospital corps, A. R. 1405. 
In field hospitals, 295. 
Muster and Pay Rolls: 
Abandoned post, 105. 
Hospital corps, A. R. 1436. 
Sick in hospital, A. R. 785. 
Muster Out: 
Volunteers, 304. 
I Nomenclature of Diseases: 
Sick report, 159, 160. 
Nurses, Contract: 
ltations for, 298, 322, 324. 
Female, duties, etc., of, 335. 
| Obstetrical and Gynecological Case: 
Contents, 228. 
Officers: 
Death, report of, 118. 
Families and servants, medical attend- 
ance, 59. 
Hospital charges, A. K. 1447. 
Hospital stores, A. It. 1450. 
Insane, A. It. 469, 470. 
Line, detailed to hospitals, 294, 309, 
310. 
Payments, final, 304. 
Personal reports, 299. 
Remains, 811. 
Official Reports and Papers: 
Transmission of, 18. 
Operating Room: 
Furniture and appliances, 209. 
Post hospitals, 41. 
Order and Letter Rook: 
Use and disposition, 122,124. 
Orderly Pouch: 
Contents, 253, 268. 
Orders: 
Condemnation of property, 296. 
Sick leaves of absence, A. E. 1315. 
Ordnance Department: 
Articles issued to Medical Department, 
264, 290. 
Outline-figure Cards: 
Authorized abbreviations, 192. 
Absence of marks, 189. 
Color of hair and eyes, 193. 
Date and station of preparation, 195. 
Detailed description, 191. 
Discharged soldiers, 197. 
Durable ink, 196. 
Form and direction, 190. 
Hospital corps members, 30 (d). 
8535 23 178 
INDEX. 
Outline-figure Cards—Continued. 
Height as basis of comparison, 194. 
Marks, uumber necessary for identifi 
cation, 188. 
Marks, record of, 183, 186. 
Rendered by civilian physicians, 332. 
Search of body, 187. 
Scars, moles, birthmarks, etc., 191. 
When to be forwarded, 184, 185. 
Pack Saddle: 
Parts, 261. 
Pay: 
Drawn in hospital, 300. 
Nurses, female, 335. 
Final, to officers, 304. 
Patients in Hospital: 
Admission, A. R. 1431. 
Arms and accouterments, A. R, 1438. 
Contagious diseases, A. R. 1442. 
Descriptive lists, A. R. 1439. 
Died, A. R. 1439. 
Discharged soldiers, A. R. 1440. 
Discharged for disability, A. R. 1439. 
Excused from Saturday inspection, A. 
R. 266. 
Information to company commanders, 
A. R. 1432. 
Muster and pay rolls, A. R. 785. 
Register, 127-131. 
Returned to duty, A. R. 1439. 
Savings of rations, A. R. 300,1269. 
Pensions: 
Degree of disability, A. R. 157. 
Evidence from records, A. R. 803. 
Personal Pocket Case: 
Contents, 230. 
Personal Reports: 
Hospital stewards, A. R. 1401. 
Information slips, 125. 
Medical officers, 299, 331. 
Physical Disqualification: 
Medical officer for promotion, 15. 
Physical Examinations: 
Hospital corps and recruits, A. It, 841, 
842,847,1399. 
Volunteers at muster out, 304, 312. 
Physicians, Contract: 
Reports rendered by, 118. 
See also Civilian Physicians and Contract 
Surgeons. 
Pills: 
See Tablets. 
Plans and Specification^: 
Hospitals, A. R. 1424-1420, 1428. 
Pocket. Case: 
Field, 269. 
Post, 231. 
Post Exchange: 
Medical attendance, employees, 61. 
Post-mortem Case: 
Contents, 232. 
Prescriptions: 
Civilians, A. R. 1444. 
Filed in hospital, 102, A. R. 1401. 
Liquors, 102. 
Promotion, Examination: 
See Examination for Promotion. 
Property, Medical: 
See Medical Property and Medical Sup- 
plies. 
Publications, Medical: 
A. R. 1449. 
Purchases: 
Supplies and services, medical, A. R, 
566,569,1400. 
Qualifications: 
Hospital corps, privates, A. R. 1399. 
Hospital stewards, A. R. 1397. 
Surgeons, A. R. 1394. 
Transfer to hospital corps, A. R. 1403. 
Quartermaster’s Department.: 
Articles issued to medical department, 
263, 289. 
Quartermasters at Hospitals: 
Division, 294. 
General, 309. INDEX. 
179 
(Quarters: 
Alterations, A. R. 1427,1428. 
Hospital stewards, 118, A. R. 1427, 
1428. 
Use of hospital as, A. R. 1430. 
See also Barracks axil Quarters. 
(Quicklime: 
• Disinfectants, 92. 330. 
Quinine: 
Prophylactic use, 326. 
Rations: 
Persons entitled, 298. 
Commutation of, 300, 322, 324. 
Receipts and Issues: 
Supply depots, 123. 
Recommendations of Medical Officers: 
Method of making, 117 (6). 
Records: 
Medical examination of recruits, A. R. 
848. 
Record Rooks: 
Abandoned posts, 105. 
Clothing, 122. 
Descriptive and deposit, 122. 
Indorsement, 122. 
Kept by chief surgeons, 17. 
Letterpress, 122. 
Letters received, 122. 
List issued, 199. 
Medical history of post, 122. 
Order and letter, 122. 
Report of, 118. 
Supply depots, 124. 
Use and disposition, 122. 
Recruiting Service: 
Civilian physicians, 293. 
Hospital corps, A. R. 1398-1400. 
Medical attendance, A. R.1458. 
Recruits: 
Vaccination, A. R. 843,846. 
Recruits, Medical Examination: 
Cadets and cadet candidates, 181, 182. 
Chest mobility, 165. 
Civilian physician, 172, 173. 
Recruits, Medical Examination—Con. 
Concealed defects, 170. 
Contract physician, 173. 
Height, 103. 
Indian scouts, 178. 
Inspection to he thorough, 168. 
Mode, 167. 
Monthly reports, 118. 
Normal standard, 174, ISO. 
Notation of defects, 175. 
Objectionable persons, 169. 
Physical proportion, 179. 
Questions and answers, 171. 
Record, 172. 
Reenlistments, 166. 
Reexaminations, 176. 
Reports, filed in Surgeon General’s 
office, 177. 
Weight, 164. 
See also A. R. 841-848. 
Red Cross Flags: 
Dressing stations, 38. 
Reenlistment: 
Discharged soldiers, 166. 
Hospital corps, 125, A. It. 1.'198, 1400, 
1404. 
Regimental Hospitals: 
Allowances for, 316, 333. 
Regimental Surgeons: 
Duties of, 18. 
Register of Patients: 
Book of transfer slips, 131. 
Civilians and general prisoners, 129. 
Corrections made on, 146. 
Daily entries, 127. 
Definition, “sick and wounded,” 126. 
Directions for keeping, 132-146. 
Excused from duty, 128. 
Retired officers and men, 129. 
Transfer of patients, 130, 131, 147. 
Regulations, Army: 
Amended, 296, 298, 311, 314. 
Regulations for Hospital Corps: 
Altered in time of war, 30. 180 
INDEX. 
Release: 
Insane soldiers from hospital, A. R. 473. 
Repairs: 
Hospitals, report of, 118, A. R. 1426- 
1429. 
Quarters for hospital stewards, A. R. 
1427,1428. 
Reports: 
Death of officers, A. R. 81. 
Sick and wounded in hospital, 151- 
158. 
See also A. R. 1464-1466. 
Reports, Daily: 
Hospital corps, 118. 
Sick and wounded, 118. 
Reports, Monthly: 
Examination of recruits, 118, 155- 
160. 
Hospital corps, 118. 
Hospital fund, 118. 
Issues and sales of medicines to civil- 
ians, 118. 
Meteorological, 118. 
Personal, 299. 
Repairs to quarters, 118. 
Sanitary, 118. 
Sick and wounded, 118, 312. 
Status and duties, 118. 
Reports, Occasional: 
Deaths of officers, 11S, 121. 
Desertions, 118. 
Epidemic diseases, 118. 
List of wounded, 118. 
Physicians, 118. 
Record books, 1 1 8. 
Reports, Weekly: 
Furloughed sick men, 300, 321. 
Reports, Yearly: 
Estimates, quarters, 118. 
Medical property, 118. 
Requisitions: 
Camp and garrison equipage, 294. 
Regimental hospitals, 333. 
Medical supplies, 329. 
Record, 124. 
See also Medical Supplies. 
Restraint Apparatus: 
Case, 213. 
Retired Enlisted Men: 
Hospital charges, A. R. 1447. 
Medical attendance and medicines, A. 
R. 1451. 
Retired Officers: 
Medical attendance and medicines, A. 
R. 1451. 
Retirements: 
Entered on register, 145. 
Return to Duty: 
Patients in hospital, A. R. 1439. 
Returns: 
Hospital corps, A. R. 1408. 
Hospital fund, 55. 
Medical property, 123. 
Wounded in action, A. R. 1466. 
Sales of Public Property: 
Hospital, A. R. 1282. 
Medical and hospital supplies, A. It. 
1444. 
Sanitation: 
Importance, 326. 
Instructions and regulations, 302 
326, 328. 
Monthly reports, 117, 118. 
Savings of Rations: 
Sick in hospital, A. R. 300. 
Screens, Bed: 
See Bed Screens. 
Screens, Door: 
See Door Screens. 
Screens, YVindow: 
See Window Screens. 
Seamen: 
Admission to hospital and charges, A. 
R. 1447. 
Servants: 
Medical attendance and medicines, A. 
R. 1456. 
Sick and YY'oundcd: 
Care on march or battlefield, A. R. 
1423. 
Definition of term, 126. INDEX 
181 
Sick and Wounded—Continued. 
Information slips, 125. 
Monthly reports, 118. 
Register in hospital, 127-131. 
Reports of, 155-160. 
Sleeping cars, A. R. 1109. 
Transportation, 152, 153, A. R. 1076. 
Sick Call: 
Surgeon’s, A. R. 1431. 
Sick in Hospital: 
See Patients in Hospital. 
Sick, Officers and Men: 
Information from records, A. R. 803. 
Slck-report Book: 
Company, A. R. 264. 
Sick Reports: 
Classification of causes, 159, 160. 
Register of patients, 126. 
Sinks of Camps: 
Renewal, 326. 
Disinfection, 330. 
Sleeping Cars: 
Furloughed sick, 309. 
Smallpox: 
Report of cases, 157. 
Soap: 
Not issued to matrons for laundry, 
84(c). 
Special Regulations: 
Army medical school, A. R. 468. 
Specifications: 
Hospital buildings, A. R. 1425, 1426, 
1428. 
Spirit Lamps: 
Hospital stores not used for, 84(d). 
Spray-producing Apparatus: 
Case, 214. 
Stationery: 
For field hospital, 275. 
In field desk, 259. 
Supply table, 205. 
Stations and Duties: 
Monthly report, 118. 
Sterilized Dressing: 
To be prepared, not issued, 94. 
Sterilizer: 
For field service, 281. 
Stomach-pump Case: 
Contents, 234. 
Subsistence Funds: 
Hospitals, 301, 308. 
Sulphate of Iron: 
Disinfectant, 01 (/<). 
Supplies, Medical: 
See Medical Supplies. 
Supply Depots: 
Record books, 124. 
Records and reports, 123. 
Supply Table: 
Antiseptics and disinfectants,202,273. 
Furniture and bedding, 207, 277. 
Hospital stores, 203, 274. 
Medicines, 201,272. 
Microscopical accessories, 204. 
Miscellaneous, 208, 278. 
Nomenclature for requisitions, 64. 
Stationery, 205,275. 
Surgical instruments, appliances, 
dressings, etc., 206, 276. 
Surgeons: 
Appointment, qualifications, etc., A. 
R. 1394. 
Chief of departments, A. R. 196, 1408, 
1418,1464-1466. 
In charge of field hospitals, 18. 
Promotion, A. R. 22,1394. 
Travel allowances, A. R. 1395. 
See also Chief Surgeons and Medical 
Officers. 
Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability: 
To be in surgeon’s handwriting, 162. 
See also Certificate of Disability. 
Surgical Appliances: 
Damaged or unserviceable, A. R. 1463. 
Payment for, supplied to soldiers, A. 
R.1456. 
Surgical Cliest: 
Contents, 255. 
Contents not to be used at post, 06. 
For field service, 270,280. 
Inspection, 96. 182 
INDEX. 
Surgical Instruments, etc.: 
Supply table, 206,276. 
Surgical Pump: 
PartB, 239. 
Tablets: 
Composition, 210. 
Tents: 
Ambulance corps, 294. 
Field hospitals, 294. 
Regimental hospitals, 302, 311, 316. 
Thermo-cautery: 
Parts, 241. 
Thermometers, Clinical: 
See Clinical Thermometers. 
Tool Chests: 
Contents, 261. 
Tooth-extracting Case: 
Contents, 235. 
Transfers: 
Female nursgs, 335. 
Field register, 152, 153. 
Hospital corps, 291.A. R. 1403, 1406. 
Register of patients, 140. 
Subsistence funds, 301. 
Transportation: 
Hospital privates, A. R. 1399. 
Men on sick furlough, 300, £09, 313, 
319. 
Wounded in ambulances, 37,38. 
Travel Allowance: 
Medical officers, A. R. 1395. 
Of soldiers forfeited, 318. 
Trephining Case: 
Contents, 247. 
Trial Lenses Case: 
Contents, 236. 
Trocliisci: 
See Tablets. 
Typhoid Fever i 
Liberal supplies for, 329. 
Precautions against, 325, 328. 
Typewriter Machine: 
Parts, 242. 
Ribbon, 125. 
Underclothing: 
Cautions, concerning, 326. 
Uniform: 
Acting assistant surgeons, 306, 317. 
Male nurses, 335, 
Hospital corps, 292. 
Urethral Case: 
Contents, 226. 
Vaccination: 
Notation on descriptive book, A. R. 
105, 264. 
Recruits, A.R. 843, 846. 
Results, report sick and wounded, 157. 
Vaccine Virus: 
Information slips, 125. 
Requisition for and care of, 90. 
Vision Test: 
Set, 243. 
Volunteers: 
Discharge for disability existing prior 
to enlistment, 297. 
Muster out, 304. 
Transfers from to hospital corps, 30, 
291. 
Waslitubs: 
For disinfection of clothing, 86. 
Water: 
Boiled or filtered, 326. 
Window Curtains and Fixtures: 
Requisitions, 101. 
Window Screens: 
Requisitions, 101. 
Wire Netting: 
Requisitions, 101. 
Wounded: 
Ambulance service, 37, 38. 
List of, 118. 
Returns of, by surgeons, A. R. 1466. 
See also Sick and Wounded. 
Wood’s Library: 
List of standard medical authors in, 
250. 
Yellow Fever: 
Precautions against, 326, 328. 
Reported, 119, 120.