Qualifications and examination of candidates for commissions in the Army Medical Servce ; Organization of the practical Army Medical School, including the subjects to be taught by the professors : and, Rules for the examination of assistant-surgeons previous to promotion.

  • Great Britain. War Office
Date:
1859
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Credit: Qualifications and examination of candidates for commissions in the Army Medical Servce ; Organization of the practical Army Medical School, including the subjects to be taught by the professors : and, Rules for the examination of assistant-surgeons previous to promotion. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Diseases produced or aggravated by the use of water con¬ taining organic matter in a state of putrefaction. Influence of elevation above or below the sea-level on lealth. Beneficial effects of change of elevation. Sanitaria. Rules for selecting them. Rules for selecting military stations. Medical topography of mountain ranges in our foreign Advantages of possessions, including the history of mountain climates. ^ Sanitary advantages of such climates m our mtertiopical pos- pjca] COUIitries. sessions. Necessity of establishing European troops in the hill ranges of our intertropical possessions. Advantages of solitary mountains. Meteorology of mountain ranges, specifying the different phenomena and their influences on health at different degrees of elevation. Causes of the greater healthiness of certain geological for¬ mations than of others. Effect of emanations from putrescent animal matter on Effects of mias- health. Emanations from excreta: from the skin: from the ^^^^ lungs. animal matter. Illustrations of the production of speedy death by such emanations; also of plague, gaol fever, typhus, &c. Diseases arising from marsh miasm, intermittent, remittent, Diseases arising and tropical bilious fevers, yellow fever, &c. _ miasm^^ Diseases aggravated by emanations from putrescent animal Diseag'es from matter. putrescent Plague, and fevers of the continued type. Typhus, cho- organic matter, lera, diarrhoea, and dysentery, ophthalmia, phthisis, carbuncle, “Pustule Maligne.” Sources of putrescent organic effluvia. Sources of Overcrowding of the population on a given area. Illus- . fcrative examples of this in civil life and in the Army. Relation of disease and mortality to surface overcrowding. Surface over- Effect of surface overcrowding during epidemics, in in- CIwdinS- creasing their intensity. Beneficial effect of spreading the population during epi¬ demics. Influence of defective surface and subsoil drainage, in Defective predisposing to epidemics, with illustrations. . drainage. Similar illustrations from defective or deficient drainage in towns and buildings. Fatal effects of sewer air diffused through the atmosphere of towns and buildings. * Miasmata from nuisances, unwholesome manufactories, Putrescent cesspools, sewers, accumulations of decaying refuse, unburied 01°amc matter- carcases, and offal, dead bodies, and overcharged grave-yards. Defective burial of the dead. Burial in churches, or under habitations. Illustrations of their influence on health, and in predisposing to epidemic disease.