February 28.
I keep a blazing
fire in my tent about half the time, these hot, humid days, to keep myself from
moulding alive. It requires a high pressure of vitality to push off these damps
as they crowd in upon me here. Yet I have found only three cases of tubercular disease
among our soldiers. Considering the fact that they were recruited without much
regard to physical ability, I think this freedom from scrofulous disease
remarkable.
SOURCE: Proceedings
of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 43, October, 1909—June,
1910: February 1910. p. 368
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