THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



B. Medical Sciences 



Vol V DECEMBEE, 1910 No. 6 



AN EXPERIMENT WITH ORANGE-RED UNDERWEAR. 1 



By Jajies M. Phalen. 2 



In his annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel William T. Wood, inspector-general of the Philippines 

 Division, called attention to the experience of British army officers in 

 India in the use of colored linings for their headgear, as well as to other 

 experiments along the same line, and reviewed the recent literature 

 bearing upon the subject. He recommended that an extended experiment 

 be instituted in these Islands and that sufficient underclothing and 

 hat linings of an orange-red color to equip several regiments be sent 

 over here. This recommendation, upon being referred to the Surgeon- 

 General and the Quartermaster-General, was concurred in and the latter 

 recommended that 5,000 suits of orange-red underclothing and a like 

 number of hat linings be authorized for the purpose. This was approved 

 by the War Department, the clothing was prepared at the Philadelphia 

 depot and shipped here, arriving in November, 190S. White under- 

 clothing of similar material was sent at the same time in sufficient 

 quantity to equip an equal number of men, to be used as controls for the 

 experiment. Upon the recommendation of the chief surgeon of the 

 division, the details of the experiment were intrusted to the Board for 

 the Study of Tropical Diseases, the members of which at this time were 

 Captains James M. Phalen and H. J. Nichols, Medical Corps. 



1 Read at the first biennial meeting of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical 

 Medicine, held at Baguio, P. I., March 14, 1910. 



2 Captain, Medical Corps, United States Army, member of the United States 

 Army Board for the Study of Tropical Diseases as they exist in the Philippine 

 Islands. 



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