We take the following extract from the "Nagasaki Press"
St. Louis, 12th October.
Before the International Congress of Military Surgeons to-day, Major Louis Livingstone Seaman, of the United States Volunteer Engineers, who has just returned from the scene of the Russo-Japanese war, deli an address.
tajer Seaman's pay to the Japanese has; medical officers, but it is of the soldiers' diet that he speaks most in approbation, although he said that the Japanese army ration has proved somewhat defective under the exhausting conditions of the present campaign in that it has not sufficient nitrogen. As a result, when he loft Newchwang, late in August, beri-beri had begun to develop. Referring to the medical wards of the hospitals, he said that of all the thousands gathered in institutions scarcely a baker's dozen came under the head of diseases of the digestive organs.
Conspicuot by their absence," he continued, ' were cases requiring operations for appendicitis, hernias, floating Kidneys, ete. Indeed, during the enti summer I have not seen single he or @ laparotomy. The Japanese sol has been taught how to troat his intest tines, and consequently his intestines are now treating him with equal consideration, His plain, rational diet is digested, metabolised and nesimilated. It is not an irritating, indigestible, fermenting mass, acting as local irritant and ducing gastritis, enteritis, coli and of inflammatory intestinal processes with which so famil ital wards at Camp Tampa, Cubs, Porto it, in 1898. oni th wat can be thoroughly metabolised and converted into the health and energy that makes its owner the ideal fighting machine of the world to-day."
Touching the lessons to be learned from the Japanese war, Major Seaman said: "The Japanese authorities permitted cur Government to send five military attaches to accompany their army in the field. Was a surgeon or a quartermaster or a commissary officer detailed? No. They who represented the life-saving and life-preserving depart-eat got the eppolntments aot to-day ments were omitted. 1 killing depart-Japanese officers are laughing in their sleeves at our sonpeless failure to have representatives on what they consider their three vital points, while the only weak, almost burlesque feature of their army, ite cavalry, is considered of sufficient importance tobe worthy of special
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