The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-05-23
The CONSUMPTION Law.
Causes Of Observation-Disclosures to
the p, ouoSt .MarshaLs.

| Inc instructions for Provost Marshal5
and others under the Conscription Law
are about to be issued by the War De-
/ partment. The following is an extract
from the regula ions in regard to exemp-
| tions
The flowing diseases and infrmities
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:
l. Manifest imbecility or insanity.
2. Epilepsy. For this disability the
statement Of the drafted man is INSULT
cient and the fact must be established
by the du y attested affidavit of physi-
clan of good standing, who has attended
him in convultion.
3. Paralysis, general or of one limb,
or chorea their existence to be ade-
quately determined.
4. Acute or organic diseases of the
brain or spinal cord of the heart or
lungs of the stomach or intcstines of
the liver or spleen of the kidneys or
bladder, sufficient to have impaired the
general health, or so well marked as to
leave no reasonable doubt of the mans
incapacity for military service.
5. Confirmed consumption cancer
aneurism of the large asteries.
6. lnveterate and extensive disease of
the skin, which will necessarily impair
his efficiency as soldier.
I. Decided feebleness of constitution,
whether natural Or acquired.
8. Scrofula or constitutional syphilis,
which has resisted treatment and serious
ly impaired his general health.
9. Habitual and confirmed intemper-
ance or solitary vice, in degree sufficient
to have materially entcebled the consti-
| tuition.
10. Chronic rheumatism, unless mani
fesed by positive change of structure,
wasting of the affected limb, or puffness
or distortion Of the joints does not ex-
empt. lmpalrd motion of the joints and
contraction of the limbs alleged to arise
from rheumatism, aud in which the nu-
triton of the limb is not manifestly
impaired, are to be proved by examina-
ton while in STATE of an1thesia iudu-
ced by ether only.
Ii. Pain, whether Stimulating head
ache, neuralgia, in any Of its forms,
rheumatism, lumbago, or affections of
the muscles, bones or joints is symptom
of disease so easily pretended that it is
MOTTO be admitted as a cause of exemp-
ton unless accompanied with manifest
arrangement of the general health, vast
ing of a limb, or other positive signs of
disqualifying local disease.
II. Great injuries or disease of the
skull, occasloning impairment of the
intellectual faculties, epilepsy, or other
manifest nervous or spasmodic symp ons.
IS. Total loss of sight loss of sight
of right eye; cataract loss of crystal
line lens of right eye.
II. Other serious diseases of the eye
affecting its integrity and use, e. e.:
opthalmia, fstula lachrymalis, ptosis,
(if real,) ectropion, entropion, &c.
Myopia, unless very decided or depend
lug upon some structural change in the
eye, is not cause for exemption.
ID. Loss Of nose; dcformity of nose
so great as seriously to obstruct respi-
ration ). ozena, dependent upon carries in
progress.
l6. Complete deafness. This disabil-
lty must not be admitted on the mere
statement of the drafted man, but must
be proved by the existence of positive
disease, or by other satisfactory evil
dence. Purulent ot.orrhna.
II. Carries Of the superior or inferior
mazila of The nasal or palate bones, if
in progress !; left palate, Ebony j extern
sive loss of substance of the checks. or
salivary fstula.
IL. Dumbness permanent loss of
voice not to be admitted without clear
and satisfactory proof.
10. Total loss of tongue mutillation
or partial loss of tongue, provided the
humiliation be extensive enough to inter
fere with the necessary use of the organ
20. Hypertrophy or atrophy of the
tongue, sufficient in a degree to impair
speech or deglution obstinate chronic
liberation of the lounge.
81. Stammering, if excessive and con-
firmed to be established by satisfactory
evidence, under oa.h.
%. Loss Of sufficient number Of teeth
to prevent proper mastication of food
and tearing the cartridge.
23. Incurable deformities or loss of
part of either jaw, hinderlng biting of
the cartridge or proper mas,ication, or
greatly njuring speech anchylosis of
lower jaw.
"A. Tumors of the neck, impending
respiration or deglution fstula of la
ryux or trachea; torticollis, if long
standing and we'll marked.
%. Deformity of the chest sufficient
to impede respiration, or to prevent the
carrying Of arms and military equip
ments !; carries of the ribs.
26. Deficient amplitude and power of
expansion of chest A man five feet
three inches minimum standard height
for the regular army should not measure
less than thirty inches in circumference
Immediately above the nipples, and have
an expansive mobility of not less than
two inches.
27. Abdomen grossly protuberant
excessive obesity; hernia, either ingul-
nal or femoral.
%. Artificial anus structure of the
rectum prolapsis ami Fistula in ano