Excerpt from The Temperance Teachings of Science Adapted to the Use of Teachers and Pupils in the Public Schools Not only did the country need a large army, it needed an army of strong, sound, healthy men. SO when a man had enlisted, he was sent from the recruiting Office to the examining surgeon, to undergo rigid bodily inspection. If the surgeon found disease in the heart, or lungs, or brain, or in any part of the body, if the enlisted man had defects Of vision, or hearing, if he had lost a front tooth, and could not bite Off the end of a cartridge, or a right thumb, and could not cover the vent-hole of a can non, if he was maimed, deformed, defective or un sound in body, the Government refused to accept him as a soldier. He could not be mustered in. For the business of war requires the highest bodily efficiency, and feeble or crippled men are not equal to its tremendous demands. 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.