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    "ocrText": "12\n13\nplace may be in part supplied by the use of vegetables desic-\nV. Supply and preparation of food and drinks.\ncated in a rarified atmosphere. There seems to be no good\nThis is a subject of great importance to the health and ef-\nreason why soldiers should not be fed as well, under ordinary\nficiency of armies, and the neglect of which is apt to be fol-\ncircumstances, as the better class of laboring men at home. It\nlowed by the most disastrous consequences. It is highly\nwould be very desirable that there should be at least one\nimportant, not only that the supply of food should be ample,\ngood cook for every company of soldiers, as the wholesome-\nbut that its quality should be good, and that it should be in\nness of their food depends very much on the manner in which\nsuch a form that it can be prepared for use as speedily and\nit is prepared. Gen. Scott is reported to have said, that a\nwith as little labor as possible. Hard biscuit or pilot bread\nman who cannot make good bread is not fit to be captain of\nmay be furnished alternately with soft bread ; and care should\na company. An ample supply of good water, for drinking\nbe taken to prevent the use of any bread of inferior quality.\nand cooking, is a matter of great importance to the health\nButter and cheese may be added with the morning and eve-\nand comfort of soldiers. It would be well if every regiment\nning meal, on which occasion coffee or tea should also be\nwere supplied with a distilling apparatus, by means of which\nprovided. The coffee which is furnished to the men should\nthe water of marshes or even of the ocean could be purified.\nbe already roasted and ground, so that it can be prepared\nDistilled water, agitated so as to mix with it a sufficient\nwith little labor. There should always be a sufficient allow-\nquantity of air, might often be substituted with great ad-\nance of sugar and milk. Where fresh milk cannot be obtain-\nvantage for the impure and unwholesome water which sol-\ned in sufficient quantities, solidified milk may be used as a\ndiers are compelled to drink. Great care should be taken\nsubstitute. There should be a regular allowance of meat\nto guard against the excessive use of alcoholic drinks. It\nand vegetables at dinner, whenever it is practicable to fur-\nwould be well for the young men in our armies to make no\nnish them. Soldiers should not be confined for a long time\nuse of these beverages, except when they are prescribed for\nto salted meat; but fresh meat should always be allowed\nmedicinal purposes.\nwhenever it can be obtained. The use of fresh vegetables\nThere can be no reasonable doubt that the health of ar-\nis of very great importance as a means of guarding against\nmies has been in many instances greatly impaired, and that\nscurvy. There are many herbs or weeds growing in the\nmultitudes of valuable lives have been lost in consequence\nfields and by the roadsides, which can be employed for this\nof the insufficient quantity or the bad quality of the food\npurpose when better vegetables cannot be obtained. Thus\nwhich has been furnished. The errors which have been\nthe French soldiers in the Crimea derived the greatest ad-\ncommitted in this respect have sometimes been due to mis-\nvantages from the use of dandelion, (Leontodon Taraxacum,)\ntakes at headquarters, sometimes to a want of knowledge\ndressed with oil and vinegar, and eaten as a salad. Fruits\nor of attention on the part of the commissaries of regiments,\nshould also be provided in their season, either in a fresh or\nand sometimes to the knavery of contractors, who have\ndried state. When fresh vegetables cannot be obtained, their\ncommitted wholesale murder by depriving the soldiers of the"
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