The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-07-15
Disqualifications for the Service.

ment of the drafted man is insufficient, and the
fact must be established by the duly attested afii-
davit of aphysician of good standing who has
attended him in convulsion.
| 3. Paralysis general or of one limb, or cho-
rea their existence is to be adequately deter
| mined.
| a Acute or organic diseases of the brain or
| spinal chord; of the heart or lungs; of the kid
neys intestines. of the kidneys or bladder suf-
.icient to have impaired the general health, or so
well marked as TO leave no reasonable doubt of
the man s capacity for military service.
D. Confirmed consumption; cancer; aneursm
! of the large arteries.
6. Inveterate and extensive diseases of the
skin, which will necessarily impair the efficiency
| of soldier
2. Decided feebleness of constitution. whether
| natural or acquired.
S. Scrofula or constitutional syphilis which
has resisted treatment and seriously impaired
| the general health.
Q. Habitual and confirmed incompetence or
solitary vice in degree sufficient to have mater
tally enfeebled the constitution.
~. Chrome rheumatism, unless manifested
| by positive change of structure, wasting of the
affected limb, or puifness or distortion of the
joint. does not exempt Impaired motion of the
| joints and contraction of the limbs, alleged to
arise from rheumatism, and in which the nutri-
tien OF the limb is not manlfestly impaired, are
10 be proved by examination while in a state of
an@thesia induced by ether only.
Ii. Pain, whether Stimulating headache, neu-
ralgia in any OF its forms, rheumatism, lumbago,
or affections of the muscles, bones or joints, is
system of disease so easily pretended that it is
not to be admitted as cause for exemption
unless accompanied with manifest arrangement
OF the general health, wasting of a limb, or other
disqualfying local disease.
II. Great injuries disease of the skull, occa-
sioning impairment of the intellectual faculties,
epilepsy or other manifest nervous or spasmodic
symptoms.
49, Total loss of sight; loss of sight of right
eye; cataract: loss of crystalline lens of right
eye.
IA Other serious diseases of the eye, affecting
its integrity and use, e. g., chronic opthalmia,
hstula, acorgmalis, ptosis, (if real), ectropion,
entropion, &C. Myopia, unless very decided,
or depending upon some structural change in
the eye, is not a cause for exemption,
Is Loss of nose; deformity of nose great
as seriously to obstruct respiration; ozena, de-
pendent upon carries in progress.
l6. Complete deafness. This disability must
not be admitted on the mere statement of the
drafted man. but must be proved by the exist
ence of positive disease or by other satisfactory
evidence. Purulent ottorrhn.
IL. Carries ofthe superior or inferior maxilia of
the nasal or palate bones. if in progress: left
palate (bony); extensive loss of substance of
the checks, or salivary fstula.
is. Dumbness; permanent loss ofvoce; not to
be admitted without clear and satisfactory proof
IL. lOtil lOsS VI tongues InutllltlDn or partial
loss OF tongue provided the mutilation be extern
sye enough to interfere with the necessary use of
the organ.
20. Hypertrophy or atrophy of the tongue,
sufficient in degree to impair speech or deglu-
tition obstinate chronic liberation of the
tongue.
u. Sammering, if excessive and confirmed:
to be established by satisfactory evidence under
oath.
%. Loss of sufficient number of teeth to pre-
vent proper mastication of food and tearing the
cartridge.
%. lncurable deformities or loss of part Of
either jaw, hndering biting off the cartridge or
proper masticaton, greatly injuring speech
anchyloss of lower jaw.
"a. Tumors of the neck, impeding respira-
ton or deglutition ; fstula oflarynx or trachea;
torticollia, if of long standing and well marked
%. Deformty of the chest sufficient TO i'm
pede respiration, or to prevent the carrying of
arms and military equipments carries of the
ribs.
26. Deficient amplitude and power of expan-
sion of chest. A five feet three inches
minimum standard hight for the regular ar
my should not measure less than thirty inches
in circumference Immediately above the nipples,
and have an expansive mobility of not less than
two inches.
n. Abdomen grossly protuberant, excessive
obesity, hernia either ingunal or femoral.
=. Artificial anus; structure of the rectum;
disqualification. hut may be SO if extensive or
complicated with visceral disease.
20. Old and ulcceratcd internal hcmorrhoi,ls,
if in degree sufficient TO impair the man elicien-
cy. External hemorrhoids are no cause for ex-
emption.
80. Total loss or nearly total loss of penis;
epispadia or hyphospapia ut the middle or near
the root of the penis.
81. lneurable permanent organic structure of
the urethra, in which the ur neis passed drop by
drop, or which is complicated by disease OF the
bladder; urinary fistula. Resent or spasmodic
structures of the urethra does not exempt.
80. lncOntinence of urine, being disease fire.
quentiy feigDed and of rare occurrence, is not of
itself a cause for exemption. Stone in the blad-
der, ascertaned by the introduction of the me-
tallc catheter, is a positive disqualification.
80. Loss or complete atrophy of both testicles
from any cause, permanent retention of one or
both testicles within the inguinal canal; but VOL
untary retraction does not exempt
"a. Confirmed or malignant sarcocele, hydro
cele, if complicated with organic disease of the
testicle. Narcocele are not in themselves dis
qualifying.
IS. Excessive anterior or posterior curvature
of the spine /; carries of the spine.
81. Wounds, fractures, tumors, atrophy of
limb, or chronic diseases of the joints or bones
that would impede marching or prevent contin-
uous muscular exertion.
IS. Anchyloss or irreduciblc dislocation of
the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee or ankle
joint.
80. Muscular or cutaneous contractions from
wounds or burns, in degree sufficient TO prevent
useful motion of the limb.
40. Total loss of thumb loss of unequal pha-
lanx of the right thumb.
Al. Total loss of two fingers of same hand
AZ. Total loss of index finger of right hand
43. Loss of the first and second phalanges of
the fingers of right hand.
a. Permanent extension permanent con-
traction of any finger except the little finger; all
the fingers adherent or united
As. Total loss of either great toe loss of any
three toes on the same foot ; all the toes Joined
together.
as. The great toe crossing the other toes with
great prominence of the articulation of the me-
tatarsal bone and first phaanx of the great toe.
AZ. Overriding or superpostion of all the
toes.
as. Permanent retraction of the last phalanx
of one of the toes that the free border of the
nail bears upon the ground or fexon at a
right angle of the first phalanx of a toe upon
a second with anticlosis of this articulation.
40. Club feet splay feet, where the arch is
far efiaced that the tuberosity of the scaphold
bone touches the ground, and the line of station
runs along the whole internal border of the foot,
with great prominence of the inner ankle but
ordinary large, ill-shaped or Hat feet do not ex-
cmpt
50. Varicosc veins of inferior extremities, if
large and numerous, having clusters of knots
and accompanied with chronic swelling or ul-
ceratons.
ST. Chronic ulcers extensive, deep and adj
herent ccatriees of lower extremties
&c. No certificate of physician or surgeon
is to be received in support Of any point in the
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