ward. Figures 3 and 4 illustrate this plan, and show how by means of it the respiratory movements of the patient are always Cross-section of a ward ventilated by air admitted at the head of each bed. Plan of a ward ventilated by air admitted at the head of each bed. carried on in a pure atmosphere. The shaded space, as before, represents the location of the foul air. In collecting the information on which this report is based, your Committee have been greatly aided by the courtesy of medical officers in the army. Our thanks are especially due to the follow ing gentlemen. J. HOPKINSON, M. D., Surg. U. S. Vols. in charge of Mower Gen. Hospital, Philadelphia. H. WARDNER, M. D., Surg. U.S. Vols. in charge of Mound City Gen. Hospital, Illinois. M. BLOCK, M.D., Asst. Surg. at Mound City Hospital. J. M. WOODWORTH, M. D., Surg. 1st Illinois Light Artillery. MORSE K. TAYLOR, M.D., Surg. U.S. Vols. in charge of hospitals at Keokuk, Iowa. JNO. L. SMITH, M.D., Asst. Surg. 55th Illinois Infantry. A. C. SWARTZWELDER, M. D., Surg. U. S. Vols. in charge of Eruptive U. S. Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky. F. MEACHAM, M.D., Surg. U. S. Vols. in charge of Gen. Hospital at Lexington, Kentucky. JAMES H. PEABODY, M.D., Surg. U. S. Vols. in charge of U.S. Marine Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. C. R. PARKE, M. D., Surg. in Russian Military Hospital at Simpheropol, Crimea. WEEKS, M.D., Surg. U. S. Vols. Louisville, Kentucky. We have aimed in this report not to put on record an exhaustive treatise on ventilation, but to array some few startling facts bearing on truths which as yet seem not to be known to all the profession. We hope in this way to render our report practically useful to our brothers in arms before the present war closes. E. ANDREWS, M. D., of Chicago, Ill. G. S. HUBBARD, M. D., of New Haven, Conn. R. H. GILBERT, M. D., Surg. U. S. A. Com. on Military Hygiene. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND DIETETIC RELATIONS OF PHOSPHORUS. BY JOHN H. GRISCOM, M. D., PHYSICIAN OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL. |