INTRODUCTORY. LXI 



here the practice is limited to the use of aether. The military surgeon is, however, 

 everywhere pennitted to resort to these agents when an infirmity is supposed to be 

 feigned by a soldier for the purpose of obtaining his discharge from the service. 



Abdominal hernia, large or small, is a cause for immediate and permanent rejec- 

 tion from military service in Great Britain, France, Avistria, Belgium, and the United 

 States. In Prussia and Switzerland, it exempts only when voluminous ; if the tumor 

 be easily confined by a truss, the subject is classified among the "partially disabled" 

 in Switzerland, and in Prussia he is relegated to the class which is called upon for duty 

 only during the exigencies of war. 



