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you leave your bed, for personal cleanliness
acts like charm against all diseases, always
either warding them off altogether or greatly
mitigating their severity and shortening
their Duration.
81. Keep the hair Of the head closely cut,
say within an inch and half of the scalp
in every part, repeated on the first of each
month, and wash the whole scalp plentifuliy
In cold water every morning.
%. Wear WOODEN stockings and moderate
iy loose shoes, keeping the toe and finger
nails always cut close.
a3. 1t IL ftoTe important to wash the feet
well every night, than to wasl, the face and
hands of mornings because it aids to keep
the skin and nails soft, and to prevent
chafngs, blisters and corns, all of which
greatly interfere with a. soldiers duty
"a. The most universally safe position,
after all stunnings, hurts and wounds, is
that of being placed on the back, the head
being elevated three or four inches only :;
aiding more than any enc thing else can do
to eeeaiiAe and restore the proper circulation
of the blood.
25 The more weary you are after march
or other work, the more easily will you take
cel6 If you remain still after it is over, unless
the rachaent you cease motion you throw a
coat or blanket over your shoulders. This
precaution should be taken in the warmest
weather, especially if there is ever q slight
air stirring.
26. The greatest physical kindess you can
show severely ~otuGed comrade is, first to
place him on his back, and then run with all
yotr Yaight FOR some water to drink; not a
second ought to be lost If no vessel is at
hand, take your hat if no hat, off with your
shirt, wiring it out once, tie the arms in a
knot, as also the lower end, thus making a
bag, open at the neck only. feet person
can convey bucketful half mile in this
way. I've seen dying man clutch at a
single drop of water from the fingers end
with the voraciousness of famished tiger.
q. If wet to the skin by rain or by SWIM
ming rivers, keep in motion until the clothes
are dried, and no harm will result.
%. Whenever it is possible, do, by all
means: when you have to use water for cook
| ing or drinking from ponds or sluggish
| streams, boil it we'll, and when cool, shake
it or stir it, so that the oxygen of the air
| shall get to it, which greatly improves it for
drinking. This boiling arrests the process
of fermentation which arises from the pres
ence of organic and inorganic Impurities,
thus tending to prevent cholera and all
bowel diseases. If there is no time for boil
| ing, at least strain it through a cloth, even
| if you have to use shirt or trowsrr leg.
20. Twelve men are hit in battle, dressed
in red, where there are only FIVE dressed in a
blush -grey-a difference of more than two
to one; green, seven; brown, six.
80. Water can be made almost ice cool in
the hottest weather, by closely enyeloping
& filled canteen, or other vessel, with wooden
cloth kept plentifully wetted and exposed.
81. While on march, lie down the mo-
| ment you halt for rest; every minute spent
| in that position refreshes more than five
minutes standing or loiter.ng about.
| 80. A daily evacuation of the bowels is
indispensable to bodily health, vigor and en-
durance; this is promoted, in many cases, by
stirring tablespoonful of corn 0ndian)
meal in glass Of water and drinking Ii on
rising in the morning.
SO. Loose bowels, namely, acting more
than once day, with feeling of debility
atterward, is the first step toward cholera
| the best remedy is instant and perfect quie-
| tude of body, eating nothing but boiled rice
with or without boiled milk in more decided
cases, a woolen flannel, with two thicknesses
in front, should be bound tightly around the
abdomen, especially if marching is neces.
| sity.
| "a. To have "been to the wars" is life
| while to have died in defense of your country
will be the boast and glory of your children 8
children.