Excerpt from Manual of the Medical Officer of the Army of the United States, Vol. 1: Recruiting and the Inspection of Recruits The laws and customs of the several States differ as to the modes of raising militia and volunteers, and as to the grounds of exemption of men claiming to be disqualified for the military service by reason of physical infirmity. But when a State is called upon to furnish its con tingent for the, service of the United States, the medical inspection of the men presented does not differ from that practiced in the case of the recruit offering himself for enlistment into the Regular Army. Drafted men and volunteers must be accepted or rejected upon the same principles as regular recruits; therefore, the standard adopted in the one case will also govern in the others. 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.