Table of Contents:
  • Military hygiene and therapeutics. A. Post and W.H. Van Buren.
  • Control and prevention of infectious diseases. E. Harris.
  • Quinine as a prophylactic against malarious diseases. W.H. Van Buren.
  • Vaccination in armies. F.G. Smith and A. Stillé.
  • Rules for preserving the health of the soldier. W.H. Van Buren.
  • Scurvy. W.A. Hammond.
  • Miasmitic fevers. J.T. Metcalf.
  • Continued fevers. J.B. Upham.
  • Yellow fever. J.T. Metcalf.
  • Pneumonia. A. Flint.
  • Dysentery. A. Stillé.
  • Pain and anæsthetics. V. Mott.
  • Hemorrhage from wounds, and the best means of arresting it. V. Mott.
  • Treatment of fractures in military surgery. J.H. Packard.
  • Amputations. S. Smith.
  • The excision of joints for traumatic cause. R.M. Hodges.
  • Venereal diseases. F.J. Bumstead.