XXVIU INTRODUCTORY. 



II. — Diseases which totally and permanently disqualify for military service. 



Abdomen — ulceration of the intestines; tubercles and morbid growths; stricture; fistula. 



Abscess — with destruction of important parts. 



Aneurism — of large arteries. 



Apoplexy — well-defined disposition to apoplexy, dependent on structure of body and 

 condition of heart and arteries. 



Arm — ankylosis of joints ; distortion or paralysis ; loss of an arm. 



Articulations" — chronic inflammation ; caries, fistula, dropsy, and morbid growths of 

 joints ; stiffness arising from cicatrices, contractions, ankylosis, old luxations, and 

 exostosis ; relaxation of ligaments, permitting easy dislocation ; false joints. 



Bladder — paralysis or stricture of neck. 



Bones — periostitis, exostosis, caries, necrosis, tumors, rachitic affections, and badly- 

 united fractures. 



Breast — malformation of the thorax. 



Catarrh — constitutional pulmonary catarrh, with dyspnoea. 



Cicatrices — if large and adherent and interfering with motion. 



Clavicle — irreducible luxation or considerable deformity. 



Consumption. 



Cranium — depressions ; exostosis ; deficiency of bone. 



Cutaneous eruptions — inveterate skin-diseases. 



Diabetes. 



Dropsy — when constitutional. 



Ears — all diseases or malformations wdnch cause complete deafness ; purulent constitu- 

 tional otorrliQ^a. 



Encephalon — morbid growths. 



Eyes — all diseases, malformations, and injuries of eyes and eye-lids in which a per- 

 manent cure is not to be expected, nor a sufficient recovery of power of vision 

 for military duties. The loss of sight of one eye exempts from all service. 



Face — great deformity from nsevi, spots, tumors, cicatrices, &c. 



Feet — flat-footedness, if it make walking difficult ; club-foot and horse-foot ; varicose 

 veins, when numerous and liable to burst. 



Fingers — total loss of thumb, or of use of it ; total loss of right index-finger, or of 

 more than two fingers of one hand ; partial loss, stiffness, paralysis, deformity, or 

 supernumerary fingers, if preventing free use of hand. 



Gangrene of a limb. 



Glands — swelling' or induration, if excessive and constitutional. 



Goitre — when large, cystic, or extending behind the sternum. 



Gout — inveterate, with swollen joints. 



Hair — incurable baldness, extending over half of the scalp. 



Heart — organic disease or malposition. 



Hsemorrhages — when due to lia?morrhagic diathesis. 



Haemorrhoids — inveterate, bleeding, and constitutional. 



Hernia — voluminous or confined with difficulty. 



