Contributions to Military and State Medicine. By John Martin Volunie
I. (J. and A. Chnrchill.)—This volume consists of two parts, of which the more important, or anyhow the more interest- ing, to the general reader, is that which has to do with "military medicine." The particular division of this which will attract most attention is that which discusses the past and present condition of the health of English troops. Statistics are published from time to time in the newspapers ; but these, to be understood, require not a little explanation and qualification. That on an average nearly every man in the Army goes into hospital once a year (for this is one way of stating the fact that the admissions in the last decennial period, ending in 1875, were 986 per 1,000 of strength) is appalling, till we are told of the way in which the hospital returns are made out. A man is returned several times on the occasion of one visit to the hospital ; and then these visits are often for very trifling timings. The second part of the volume discusses the influence of impure drinking water on various diseases of the intestines.
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