Excerpt from The Military Surgeon, 1920, Vol. 47: Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Many soldiers and officers who had worn glasses in the past decided that they were unnecessary in a military career; such men left their glasses at home, or forgot their prescriptions, or did not replace break ages, later suffering much annoyance from the brimless overseas cap, from exposure to the white roads of France, from work on necessary records or in technical schools, or other exciting causes of Visual strain. 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.