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on the advice of Doctor Koike, Surgeon-General, as shown in following quota- 

 tion. This account of the experiment is taken from an address by Dr. K. 

 Tamura, Delegate from Japan to the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Military 

 Surgeons of the United States Army, June 7, 1902 : 



" Half the second company, first battalion of infantry at Kirun, Formosa, 115 

 in number, was emploj^ed from the day of their landing at Kirun, and we gave 

 it the name of ' Protected troops.' This troop was thoroughly provided with 

 means of protection from mosquito bites. They were confined in the casern 

 from half an hour before sunset, to half an hour after sunrise, the casern having 

 been specially made to prevent mosquitoes entering, and they wore gloves and 

 coverings of the head, specially made for that purpose, when on service at night. 



" The results of these new methods for the prevention of malaria were abso- 

 lutely good. Another half of the second company (called by us comparison 

 troop) and all the other companies of the battalion (called by us unprotected 

 troop) had a great many malaria patients, but the protected troop had none. 



" The table of the numbers of patients is as follows : 



" The experiment of Grassi in Italy shows that 5 cases of malaria were ob- 

 served among 112 persons, and Celli observed 11 cases in 203 persons, but our 

 case shows none in 114 persons. 



" The news spread rapidly in the whole island and all the troops despatched 

 there became very cautious regarding the bites of mosquitoes. This caution 

 itself gave good results, and the number of patients and deaths decreased dis- 

 tinctly last year, compared with the preceding years. 



" Now it is very clear that the prevention of Malaria is secured by guarding 

 against mosquitoes, and we believe that Formosa will become a healthy island 

 within a few years." 



In the recent war between Eussia and Japan, the Japanese gave the world an 

 example of field sanitation hitherto unequaled in history, a vivid account of 

 which will be found in an article " The Eeal Triumph of Japan," by Dr. Louis 

 Livingston Seaman, formerly Surgeon-Major, U. S. Volunteers (New York, 

 1906), from which the following facts are drawn : 



Longmore's tables, based on the records of the battles of the last 200 years, 

 show that there has rarely been a conflict of any long duration in which there 



