large and numerous, having clusters of knots and accompanied with chronic swellings.

37. Extensive, deep, and adherent cicatrices of lower extremities.

Soldiers having nervous debility, or excitability of the heart, impeded respiration from curable causes, chronic dyspepsia, chronic diarrhoea, chronic disorders of the kidneys or bladder, incontinence of urine, aphonia, hemeralopia, or other disease or infirmity not incurable, are not to be recommended for the Invalid Corps until they have been under medical treatment or observation a sufficient length of time to make it extremely probable, if not certain, that they will not be fit for active fieldservice during any considerable portion of their period of enlistment.

Soldiers who have lost an arm, forearm, hand, thigh, leg, or foot, may be discharged from the army on surgeon's certificate, if they so elect.

None of the foregoing disabilities disqualify officers for service in the Invalid Corps; but some of them may be so aggravated or complicated as to unfit for any service: all such cases should be discharged.

In all cases where the physical infirmities of officers or enlisted men come within the pro

visions of the above list, they will be recommended for transfer to, or enlistment in, the Invalid Corps; but no one will be admitted into this corps whose previous record does not show that he is meritorious and deserving, and that he has complied with the provisions of General Orders No. 105, War Department, AdjutantGeneral's Office, 1863, authorizing an Invalid Corps.*

* Extracts from General Order No. 212, 1863.

CHAPTER IV.

PHYSICAL INFIRMITIES THAT DISQUALIFY ENLISTED MEN FOR SERVICE IN THE INVALID CORPS.*

1. MANIFEST imbecility or insanity.

2. Epilepsy, if the seizures occur more frequently than once a month and have obviously impaired the mental faculties.

3. Paralysis or chorea.

4. Organic diseases of the brain or spinal cord; of the heart or lungs; of the stomach or intestines; of the liver or spleen; of the kidneys or bladder, so extensive and long-continued as to have seriously impaired the general health, or so well marked as to leave no reasonable doubt of the man's incapacity for service in the Invalid Corps.

NOTE. This paragraph is intended to apply to incurable organic diseases of severe character, rendering a man useless for any purpose in the military service, or organic diseases of equal severity, curable, but curable after so long a course of treatment as practically to render the man useless during his period of enlistment.

* Extracts from General Order No. 212, 1863.

5. Confirmed consumption, cancer, aneurism of important arteries.

6. Inveterate and extensive disease of the skin.

7. Scrofula, or constitutional syphilis, which has resisted treatment and seriously impaired the general health.

8. Habitual or confirmed intemperance, or solitary vice, sufficient in degree to have materially enfeebled the constitution.

9. Great injuries or diseases of the skull, occasioning impairment of the intellectual faculties, epilepsy, or other serious nervous or spasmodic symptoms.

10. Total loss of sight; partial loss of sight of both eyes, and permanent diseases of either eye affecting the integrity and use of the other eye, vision being so greatly impaired as to leave no reasonable doubt of the man's incapacity for service in the Invalid Corps.

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11. Loss of nose, or deformity of nose, sufficient seriously to obstruct respiration; ozoena, if dependent upon caries.

12. Deafness.

13. Dumbness; permanent loss of voice. 14. Total loss of tongue, partial loss, and hypertrophy or atrophy, of tongue, if sufficient

to make the speech unintelligible and prevent mastication or deglutition.

15. Incurable deformities of either jaw, whether congenital or produced by accident, which would prevent mastication or greatly injure the speech.

16. Tumors of the neck impeding respiration or deglutition; fistula of larynx or trachea.

17. Deformity of the chest, sufficient to impede respiration or to prevent the carrying of arms and military equipments; caries of the ribs.

18. Artificial anus; severe stricture of the rectum.

19. Total loss, or nearly total loss, of penis; epispadia or hypospadia, at the middle or nearer the root of the penis; stone in the bladder.

20. Incurable permanent organic stricture of the urethra, in which the urine is passed drop by drop, or which is complicated by disease of the bladder; urinary fistula.

21. Confirmed or malignant sarcocele; hydrocele, if complicated with organic disease of the testes.

22. Excessive anterior or posterior curvature of the spine; caries of the spine; lumbar ab

scess.

23. Anchylosis of hip-joint.