To the Coast Rangers, on cleanliness.

  • Hatch, L. M.
Date:
[1862?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: To the Coast Rangers, on cleanliness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    f/M,L M **- JUL. JAN16 190g TO THE COAST RANGERS ON CLEANLINESS. The importance to the soldier of personal cleanliness can hardly be over estimated. There are many reasons why soldiers should be the healthiest of men. They are, generally, in the very prime of life, living much in the open air, with such opportunities for exercise as should fit them to endure all they ever are called upon to. They have some of the advantages so beneficial to most constitutions, of change of scene and climate, and they are abundantly supplied with good food and clothing. Under strong, despotic governments, much attention is given to see that the most is made of these advantages. The soldier is cared for in all that relates to his physical well-being, for he has a constantly increasing value, so- long as he is of an age to stand the work for which so much care is bestowed upon him. The soldiers of despots are always better cared for than those of free governments. Despots know what it costs to place a soldier on the field before his enemy. They have paid for it. The soldiers of free governments cost nothing. Those of the South can almost be said to have