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THE RESULT OF OBSERVATIONS MADE UPON THE DISEASES WHICH OCCURRED IN THE Military Hospitals of the United States, DURING THE LATE WAR.
1. THE army when it lay in tents was always more sickly, than when it lay in the open air. It was likewise more healthy when it was kept in motion, than when it lay in an encampment.
2. YOUNG men under twenty years of age were subject to the greatest number of camp diseases.
3. THE southern troops were more sickly than the northern or eastern troops.
4. THE native Americans were more sickly than the natives of Europe who served in the American army.
5. MEN above thirty, and five and thirty years of age, were the hardiest soldiers in the army. Perhaps the reason why the natives of Europe were more healthy than the native Americans, was, they were more advanced in life.