INTRODUCTORY. 



DISQUALIFICATIONS FOE, MILITARY SERVICE IN THE UNITED 



STATES. 



MENTAL AND MORAL INFIRMITIES. 



Manifest imbecility ; dementia ; dipsomania. 

 Conviction for felony. 

 Desertion, as evidenced by branding. 

 Obstinate malingering, (prevents re-enlistment.) 



GENERAL PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS. 



Feebleness of constitution. 



Scrofulous diathesis. , . . , ,, ^ -u^nUL 



Syphilis which has resisted treatment and has severely mjured the health. 



Cancer, or the cancerous diathesis. 

 Habitual drunkenness. 



SPECIAL DISQUALIFICATIONS. 



FIRST CLASS. 



ORGANS OF SPECIAL SENSE AND ACCESSORY APPARATUS. 



A.— Affections of the auditory apparatus. 



Deafness. 



Inveterate chronic pm-ulent otorrhoea. , , . -, 



Tumors, malignant disease or caries of mastoid cells, labyrmth, or tylr.panum. 



Perforation of the membrana tympani. 



Obliteration or imperforation of the auditory canal. 



Malformation or loss of external ear. 



B.— Affections of the eye and its appendages. 

 Total loss of sight; loss of an eye, or loss of sight of right eye; cataract; loss of 

 crystalline lens of right eye. .• * • v 



Ophthalmia, when chronfc, purulent, gonontoal, or likely t» be tet^Cvo n, ,t, 



results. 

 Encanthis, if malignant; pterygium, if extensive. 



Conicitv of the cornea. , , • i ^ i •,,+„,. 



Opacity of the cornea; nebula, albugo, and leucoma, ii upon the nght eye and n.tei- 



ferino- with vision. ji • ^e 



Congenital defects of iris of nght eye; rheumatic or syphditic mtas; adhesions ot 

 iris to the capsule of the lens ; staphyloma scleroticse ; glaucoma. 



Myopia. 



Strabismus of the right eye, if decided. 



Ilydrophthalmia ; exophthalmia. 



