Excerpt from Union Army
Surgeons
Manual
- 1296.
- Medical officers, in
giving
certificates of disability (Form 13),
are to take
particular care in
all cases that have not been under
their charge;
and especially in epilepsy, convulsions,
chronic
rheumatism, derangement
of the urinary organs, ophthalmia,
ulcers, or any
obscure disease liable to be feigned or
purposely
produced; and in no
case shall such certificate be given
until after
sufficient time and examination to
detect any
attempt at deception.
- 1297.
- In passing a recruit the
medical
officer is to examine him stripped; to
see that he
has free use of all his
limbs; that his chest is ample; that
his hearing,
vision, and speech are perfect; that he
has no
tumors, or ulcerated or
extensively cicatrised legs; no rupture
or chronic
cutaneous affection; that he has not
received any
contusion, or wound
of the head, that may impair his
faculties; that he
is not a drunkard; is not subject to
convulsions;
and has no
infectious disorder, nor any other that
may unfit
him for military service.
- 1298.
- Medical officers attending
recruiting
rendezvous will keep a record (Form 14)
of all the
recruits examined
by them. Books for this purpose will be
procured by
application to the Surgeon General, to
whom they
will be returned
when filled.
- 1299.
- As soon as a recruit joins
any regiment
or station, he shall be examined by the
medical
officer, and
vaccinated when it is required.
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