LVlll INTKODUCTOKV. 



4. Paralysis, general or of one limb, or chorea ; their existence to be adequately 



determined. Decided ati'ophy of a limb. 



5. Organic diseases of internal organs, which have so seriously impaired his general 



health as to leave no doubt of his incapacity for military service, and which 

 prevents his pursuing any equally laborious occupation in civil life. 



6. Developed tuberculosis. 



7. Cancer ; anemism of the large arteries. 



8. Inveterate and extensive disease of the skin, such as will necessarily impair his 



efficiency as a soldier. 



9. Permanent physical disability of such degree as to leave no doubt of the man's 



unfitness for military service. 



10. Scrofula, or secondary syphilis, which has so seriously impaired his general health 



as to leave no doubt of the man's incapacity for military service. 



11. Chronic rheumatism, unless manifested by positive change of structure, wasting of 



the affected limb, or puffiness or distortion of the joints, does not exempt. 

 Impaired motion of joints and contraction of the limbs, alleged to arise from 

 rheumatism, and in which the nutrition of the limb is not manifestly im- 

 paired, are to be proved by examination while in a state of ansesthesia, induced 

 by sether only. 



12. Total loss of sight of right eye ; cataract of right eye ; loss of crystalline lens of 



right eye. 



13. Partial loss of sight of both eyes, vision being so greatly impaired as to leave no 



doubt of the man's inability to perform military duty. Serious pemianent 

 diseases of the eye or eye-lids so manifestly affecting the use of the eyes as 

 to leave no doubt of the man's incapacity for military service. Nearsighted- 

 ness does not exempt. 



14. Total loss of nose; deformity of nose so great as seriously to obsti'uct respiration;. 



oza?na, dependent on caries in progress. 



15. Decided deafness. This disability 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 evidence, and it must be so decided as to leave no 

 doubt of the man's unfitness for military service. Chronic purulent otorrhoea. 

 IG. Incurable diseases or deformities of either jaw, such as will necessarily greatly 

 impede mastication or speech. Ankylosis of the lower jaw ; caries of the 

 bones of the faee, if in progress; cleft palate, (bony;) extensive loss of sub- 

 stance of the cheeks, or salivary fistula. 



17. Dumbness; permanent loss of voice ; not to be admitted without clear and satis- 



factory jjroof 



18. Total loss of tongue ; hypertrophy, atrophy, mutilation, or obstinate chronic ulcera- 



tion of the tongue, if sufficient in degree to interfere seriously with the use 

 of the organ. 



19. Stammering, if excessive and confirmed; to be estabhshed by satisfactory evidence 



under oath. 



20. Total loss of all the front teeth, the eye-teeth, and first molars, even if only of 



one j;nv. 



