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struight line, and the great toe does not greatly protrude beyond the others The 

 broad foot is usually very fleshy. Mobility in the articulation is not interfered with, 

 and the individual does not walk with bent knees. 



VIII. GENERAL DISEASES. 



1. General debility, apparently not amenable to treatment for the strengthening of the 



organism. 



2. Incurable skin-diseases. 



3. A confirmed strumous diathesis, evidenced by chronic tumors and ulcers. 



4. General and inveterate syphilis. 



5. All lipomatous tumors, if they disfigure or interfere with movement. 



6. All aneurisms and so-called lymphatic tumors, (congestive abscesses.) 



7. Carcinomatous formations of all kinds. 

 8. , Habitual tremor and convulsions. 



9. Chorea. 



10. Paralysis. 



11. Epilepsy. 



12. All diseases of the mind. 



APPENDIX C. 



List of all such palpable infirmities as exclude forever frmn military service and can he 



easily recognized even by the non-medical man. 



I. — HEAD. 



1. Deformity, obliquity, or abnormal size of the head to such a degree that the 



military head-covering cannot either be worn at all or according to regulation. 



2. Complete bald-headedness. 



3. Partial loss of substance of the cranial bones. 



4. Nsevi or malformations of the face producing much disfigurement. 



5. Absence of one or both eye-lids, or of a considerable portion of them ; loss of 



an eye. 

 C\ Eye-ball protruding beyond the orbital cavity and the eye-lids. 

 7. A very deformed nose, producing much disfigurement, or the partial or total loss 



of it. 



II. NECK. 



1. Large disfiguring bronchocele, greatly impeding respiration. 



2. Permanent wry-neck. 



HI. TRUNK. 



1. Disfiguring hump on the back or breast. 



2. Prominent inequality in height of shoulders. 



3. Great protuberance of the abdomen. 



4. Prominent displacement and obliquity of the hip. 



5. Hermaphroditism of the genital organs ; total or nearly total absence of the penis. 



IV. — EXTREMITIES. 



1. Decided shortening of a limb. 



2. Loss of a limb or of an impoi'tant part of it ; also loss of the thumb or of the index- 



