The Portland daily press., 1862-09-03
Soldiers Cared For.

Out Of one thousand soldiers, one hundred
and four are sick; this is the constant propor-
tion, as reported by the Sanitary Commission
The autumn always increases the number, by
reason Of the hot days and cool nights, causing
diarrhgas and dysenteries, of every shade and
degree. One yard and a-half of stout wooden
flannel. fourteen inches broad, worn, from An
gust to November, tightly and constantly
around the abdomen, in such way that twill
be double in front, with bits of tape strongly
sewed on one end, and about one yard from
the other, according to the size of the person,
for convenience of tying, would do more to-
ward preventing bowel-complaints among our
brave and seli-denying soldiers, than all known
human means besides. This simple device
arrested the onset of cholera, in three days, in
one of the largest divisions of the Prussan
army, when the terrible scourge last visited
Europe. Let every family, who has a member
in the army, forward such an article on the in
slant of reading this; if you can do no better,
send an old worn pettcoat, for, by reason of
its sofness and pliability, it is better than any
thing else. Let every mother who reads this,
and who may have no son or other relative
bravely battling for the perpetuity of our glo-
rious Union, send one abdominal bandage, to
be given to some worthy soldier who has no
mother, no sister. no wife, to exercise these
kindly cares for him. And let the generous
rich, of whom there are so many among us, be
assured that it is impossible to spend an equal
amount of money as efficiently in any other
way. One man who has been in the army
twelve months is worth nolc two raw recruits !;
hence one dollars worth of good wooden fan
mel for one of them, or even an old petticoat,
by keeping such soldier healthy in the field
will be worth more than the fifty dollars boun-
ty paid for the two recruits, under the present
exigencies of the case
Winter is coming; let the sisters and moth
ers Of the soldiers begin to knit two or three
pairs of thick wooden socks, To be forwarded
to each son and brother by the first of Octo-
Der; let the toes and heels be double-knitted,
or sheafhed with the blue cloth of some worn
ont coat or pantaoons, cautioning the soldier
TO keep the toe-nails closely trimmed, so as TO
prevent the cutting of the socks.
Begin at once and put up in quart tin cans,
TO be forwarded at interuels, flor if sent in
large quantities at a time, they will be wasted
or too layishly used,) picked cucumbers cab
bage. Onions are represented by Psychologists
to be among the most wholesome and nutri-
tious of all the vegetable products, besides
their Immediately nvigoratng and enlivening
effects. If gallon of onions. could be sent to
each soldier, once q month, in addition to a
quart of picked cucumbers or cabbage, scurvy,
already beginning to manifest itself, would be
unknown. And il it could be felt how CRATE
ful quart tin can of preserved berries, toma-
toes, or fruits, would be to soldier who does
not see such things, preserved or fresh, some
times for months together, their sisters, and
mothers, and cousins, and wives would spare
no little pains to prepare a good supply for
months to come, and would begin to send them
on the Instant Halls Journal of Health.