Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-05-13
To Hon. JOSEPH X. EDGERTc
The Consumption Law---Causes of
Exemption.


Exemption.
The instructions for Provost Marshals and
other officers under the Consumption law, are
about to be issued by the ar Department. The
following is an extract from the regulations, in
regard to exemptions:
IS. The following diseases and in6rmities are
those which disqualify for military service, and
for which. only. drafted men are to be rejected
as physically or mentally unfit for the service"
viz:
/. Manifest imbecility or insanity.
9 Epilepsy. For this disability, the statement
of the drafted man is insufficient, and the fact
must be established by the duly attested affidavit
of a physician of good standing, who has attended
him in a CONFUSION.
g.. Paralysis, general, or of one limb. or chorea;
their existence to be adequately determined.
4. Acute, or organic diseases of the brain or
spinal cord; of the heart, or lungs; of the stom-
ach, or intestines; of the liver, or spleen; of the
kidneys, or bladder. sufficient to have impaired
the general health, or so well marked rs TO leave
no reasonable doubt of the mans incapacity for
military service.
3. Confirmed consumption; cancer; aneurism
of the large arteries.
6. Inveterate and extensive disease of the skin
which will necessarily impair his efficiency as a
soldier
Z. Decided feebleness of constitution, whether
natural or acquired.
8. Scrofula or constitutional syphilis. which
has resisted treatment and seriously impaired bis
general health.
3. Habitual and confirmed intemperance or
solitary vice, in degree sufficient to have mater
ially enfeebled the constitution.
10. Chronic rheumatism, unless manifested by
positive change of structure, wasting of the af-
fected limb. or ~pufineSs or distortion of the
Joints does not exempt. Impaired motions of
joints and contraction of the limbs alleged to
arise from rheumatism, and in which the nutrition
of the limb is not manifestly impaired. are to be
proved by examination while in IA state of apaes
thesia induced by ether only.
fl. Pain, whether Stimulating headache, neural
gia in any of its forms, rheumatism. lumbago. or
affections of the muscles, bones or joints, is a
symptom Of disease so easily pretended that it is
not to be admitted AS a cause for exemption unless
accompanied with manifest arrangement of the
general health, wasting of a limb, or other posi-
tive sign of disQualifying local disease.
~. Great injuries or disea. e of the skull. occa-
sioning impairment of the intellectual faculties,
epilepsy, OF other manifest nervous or spasmodic
symptoms.
10 Total loss of sight; loss of sight of The
right eve; cataract; loss OF crystalline lens of right
eve.
IA. Other serious diseases of the eve, affecting
its integrity and use, { g.: chronic Opthalmia, IFS
tula lachrymalis. ?toSis (f real ectropion. en-
tropiOn. &c. Myopia. unless very decided or de
pending upon some structural change in the eye,
is not a cause Cor exemption.
Is Loss OF nose; deformity of nose so great as
seriously to obstruct respiration; ozena, dependent
upon carries in progress.
16. Complete deafness. This disability must
not be admitted on the mere Statemen of the
drafted man. but must he proved by the existence
of positive disease, or by Otner satisfactory evil
dence. Purulent Ottorrhpa
IL Carries of the superior or inferior maxills
of the nasal or palate bones, if in progress; left
palate (hony:) extensive loss of substance OF the
the cheek, or salivary hstula.
Is. Dumbness; permanent loss OF voice; not
to be admitted without clear and satisfactory
proof.
10. Total loss of tongue: mutilation or partiaI
loss of tongue, provided the mutilation be exten-
sive enough to interfere with the necessary use OF
the organ.
30. Hypertrophy or atrophy of the tongue
sufficient in a degree TO impair speech or deg
l%utition; obstinate chronic liberation of the
tongue
81. Stammerins if excessive and confirmed
to be established by satisfactory evidence, under
oath.
% Loss of a sufficient number of teeth to pre-
vent proper mastication of food aud tearing the
cartridge.
%. lncurable deformities or loss of part Of
either jaw, h~indering biting of the cartridge Of
proper mastication. or greatly injuring speech
anchylosis of lower jaw.
"a Tumors of the neck. impeding respiration
or deglutition; fstula of larynx or %trachea; tor
%ticollis. il of long standing and well marked.
25. Deformity of the chest sufficient to impede
respiration, or to prevent the carrying OF arms
and military equipments; carries OF the ribs.
&c. Deficient amplitude and power of expan
sion of the chest. A man FIVE feet three inches
(minimum standard hight for the regular army
should not measure less than thirty inches in cir
cumference Immediately above the nipples. ant
have an expansive mobility Of not less than tive
inches.
81. Abdomen grossly protuberant; excessive
obesity; hernia, either Inguinal or femoral.
%. Artificial anus; structures OF the rectum
p~rolapsus ami. Fistula in ano is not a positive
disqualification. but may be so if extensive o
complicated with visceral disease.
20. Old and liberated internal hemorrhoids. !
in a degree sufficient to impair the mans eff
cheney. External hemorrhoijs are no cause TO
exemption.
80. Total loss or nearly total loss OF penis
epspadia or hypospadia at the middle or near tn
root Of the penis.