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Excerpt from Elements of Field Hygiene and Sanitation One of the important subjects with which newly commissioned officers must acquaint themselves is the care of troops. Disease has killed more soldiers than powder and shot, and has occasioned the defeat of many armies. But when so much other military knowledge must be acquired, a description of how troops are kept healthy should be brief. This booklet, therefore, considers only those points that are of proven value. Many illustrations are employed in order to give clear ideas of the sanitary apparatus used in different armies and to abbreviate the text. The diagrams after Havard, Lelean, Tournade, Lewis and Miller, Peck and Trinca, are reproduced by courtesy of Wm. Wood and Company, Messrs J.A. Churchill, M. Fournier, the Military Surgeon and the British Medical Journal respectively. The first mentioned have also kindly permitted the usage of Havards text descriptive of the figure reproduced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.