CHAPTER XV.

METEOROLOGY

SECTION 1.-Thermometers

SECTION IL.-Hygrometers .

SECTION III.-Barometer

SECTION IV.-Rain ....

SECTION V.-Evaporation

SECTION VI._Wind

SECTION VII.-Clouds.

SECTION VIII. - Ozone.

SECTION IX.-Electricity

SECTION X. - Thermometer stand.

SECTION XI.-Weather

SECTION XII.-Diseases and meteorological conditions.

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SECTION II.- Non-specific diseases-

Dysentery and diarrhea

Liver diseases (Indian).

Insolation

Phthisis

Scurvy ..

Military ophthalmia .

Venereal diseases in the army.

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CHAPTER XIX.

DISINFECTION AND DEODORIZATION...

Nature of the contagia..

The media in which the contagia are spread.

Effects of heat as a disinfectant.

Disinfecting chambers...

Effects of chemical agents.

Purification of clothes.

Purification of the air by chemical methods.

Purification of rooms after infectious diseases.

Disinfection in various diseases....

Exanthemata ...

Typhus

Plague ....

Enteric fever

Cholera ....

Yellow fever..

Dysentery

Cattle plague...

Deodorization of sewage.

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CHAPTER II.

CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THE SOLDIER 18 PLACED..

SECTION I.-Barracks at home....

Barracks in hot climates.

Wooden huts....

War huts..

Tents

Camps .

Hospital encampment.

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SECTION II.-Food of the soldier....

SECTION III.-Clothing of the soldier.

SECTION IV.-Articles of clothing.

SECTION V.-Equipments ...

SECTION VI.-Carriage of necessaries and armanents.

SECTION VII.- Work of the soldier..

Gymnastic exercises.

Marches

Duty of medical officers during marches..

Marching in India......

Canada

CHAPTER III.

FOREIGN SERVICE.

Gibraltar....

Malta

Cyprus..

West Indies.

Jamaica

Trinidad .....

Barbadoes.

St. Lucia ....

British Guiana...

Bahamas and Honduras.

Bermuda......

North American stations.

Canada

St. Helena ....

West Coast of Africa,

Cape of Good Hope..

Mauritius ..

Ceylon..

India.

China.

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CHAPTER V.

SERVICE ON BOARD SAIP......

SECTION I.-Transports for healthy troops.

SECTION II. — Transports for sick troops..

SECTION III.-Hospital ships .....

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CHAPTER VI.

WAR....

SECTION 1.-Preparation for war during peace.

SECTION II.-Entry on war..

SECTION III.-Actual war....

Army medical regulations in war.

Causes of sickness and mortality.

Duties of sanitary officer..

Hospitals in war...

Sieges...

APPENDIX..

PAGB

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CONTENTS OF THE AMERICAN APPENDIX.

INTRODUCTION

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WATER ...

THE CHARACTERS AND DISTRIBUTION OF AMERICAN Soils...

CLIMATOLOGY AND METEOROLOGY.

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