On the Growth of the Recruit and Young Soldier, with a View to the Judicious Selection of "Growing Lads" for the Army

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Page 24 - Lord Raglan that he had 2,000 recruits to send him, he replied that those last sent were so young and unformed, that they fell victims to disease, and were swept away like flies — -he preferred to wait.
Page 46 - So far as the English and Irish curves can be considered as correct, they indicate that the English are the least developed of the natives of Britain at a given age, the Irish most, the Scotch retaining an intermediate place. 5. The maximum height is barely attained at the age of 25. 6. All the developments increase during the period of observation (14 to 26 years of age), and all increase more slowly as age increases. Hence the curves...
Page 45 - I must have grown men ; boys serve only to fill the hospitals and encumber the roadsides.
Page 10 - To direct redoubled attention to hygiene, public and private, with the view of preventing diseases on the large scale, and individually in our sphere of practice. Here the surest and most glorious triumphs of medical science are achieving and to be achieved.
Page 6 - Similar Returns for the Colonies are as follows :— From 1837 to 1856. 1859 to 1861. Gibraltar 22 9 Malta 18 14 Ionian Islands 27 9 Bermuda 35 11 Canada 20 10 Jamaica 128 17 Ceylon 74 27 " I have other returns from other colonies...
Page 53 - An army raised without proper regard to the choice of its recruits was never yet made good by length of time; and we are now convinced by fatal experience that this is the source of all our misfortunes. So many defeats can only be imputed to the effects of a long peace which has made us negligent and careless in the choice of our levies...
Page 49 - ... tendency to constitutional disease. On the other hand also, as the height approaches a maximum at the age of eighteen, the excess of growth of the body generally, compared with the expansion, growth, and vital capacity of the lungs, becomes sufficiently obvious by the contrast of the tall body with the narrow and flat chest in which the apices of the lungs approach close to each other. Generally in such cases the reparative organs are out of proportion to the body which has to be sustained.
Page 12 - ... we cannot possibly understand even human physiology, still less general physiology. The Pathologists, on the other hand, are so much in arrear, that the diseases of the lower animals...
Page 12 - The best physiologists distinctly recognize that the basis of their science must include not only the animals below man, but also the entire vegetable kingdom, and that without this commanding survey of the whole realm of organic nature we cannot possibly understand even human physiology, still less general physiology.
Page 24 - ... .rather than to have lads shipped to him as soldiers. Lord Hardinge writes of the same campaign that " although no men were sent under 19 years of age, yet when sent out it was found that instead of being composed of bone and muscle they were almost gristle.

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