First aid, daily, second and third months, 1 hour.
Diet cooking, daily, second month, 1 hour.

Materia medica and pharmacy, daily, third month, 2 hours.
Clerical work, twice a week, third month, 1 hour.
Care of animals, twice a week, third month, 1 hour.
Elementary hygiene, daily, first month, 1 hour.

Fourth month:

Setting-up drill, daily, one-half hour.
Company drill, daily, one-half hour.
Bearer drill, daily, 1 hour.

Care of animals, twice a week, 1 hour.

Materia medica and pharmacy, daily, 1 hour.

Clerical work, daily, 1 hour.

Setting-up drill or calisthenics, as given here, consists of the usual setting-up exercises of the Infantry Drill Regulations, with the addition of a number of exercises taken from the Manual of Calisthenic Exercises devised by Lieutenant Koehler, master of the sword, at the United States Military Academy. Attended by all classes. Company drill is attended by all classes and includes definitions, general principles, school of the soldier, the squad, and school of the company, including movements by platoons as laid down in Infantry Drill Regulations. Manual of arms, firings, and bayonet exercises are of course not included.

Bearer drill includes everthing laid down in the Drill Regulations for the Hospital Corps. The course is graded and covers three months.

Bearer drill and field work.-All classes. First month: Drill Regulations, paragraphs 50-113. Recitations on these paragraphs. Duty of each member of the squad. Drill with unloaded litter. Drill with loaded litter.

Second month: Paragraphs 113-165. Recitations on these paragraphs. Loaded litter over obstacles. Loaded litter upstairs. Loaded litter downstairs. To load with reduced numbers. Improvisation of litters. To remove wounded without litters. To place patient on horseback. The use of the travois. Ambulance drill. To prepare and load ordinary wagons.

Third month: Tent drill and packing. Shelter tent. Clothing roll. First-aid

work in the field.

The course of instruction of each month has been concluded with public field exercises, the preparation for which has occupied the drill hours of the first class during the last week of the course.

The concluding feature has been an exhibition of some work of the Medical Department in active service; a regimental field hospital has been established and all departments completely organized for work, including the preparation of light diets; the work of a brigade section of an ambulance company has been shown by the establishment and operation of dressing and ambulance stations.

These exercises have increased the men's interest in their work to a marked degree, and have been beneficial in many other ways. On each occasion there has been a considerable attendance of officers and their families and civilians from the city.

FIELD GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE FIRST CLASS, APRIL 27, 1901.

1. Company drill, platoon formations, 10 minutes.

2. Litter drill, all classes, unloaded litter, 10 minutes.

3. Litter drill by classes, 20 minutes. First class: First aid in the field, search for wounded, method of exposing wounds, applying first-aid dressings, application of extemporized splints, transporting patient by litter and ambulance to dressing station. Second class: Litter drill with loaded litter; squads acting independentlyupstairs, downstairs, obstacles; removing wounded without litters. Third class: Litter drill with unloaded litter (without slings); commands; change bearers; posts; loading patient on litter, and unloading.

4. Exhibition drill, manual of unloaded litter, by detachment for Pan-American Exposition.

5. Exhibition tent pitching, detachment for Pan-American Exposition.

FIELD EXERCISES, MAY 29, 1901.

1. Company exercises: (a) Calisthenic class (A. H. S. Howe, instructor). (b) Company drill.

2. Bearer drill by classes: (a) (First class:) Shelter-tent pitching. (b) (Second class:) Drill with loaded litter (A. H. S. Howe, instructor). (c) (Third class:) Exercises with triangular bandage (A. H. S. Eiseman, instructor.)

3. Practical field work by first and second classes-showing the work at the front by a brigade section of an ambulance company: (a) Establishment of a dressing station. (b) Establishment of an ambulance station. (c) The work on the firing line: First aid in the field, removing wounded by litter, on horseback, by blanket litter, and without litter by one or more bearers.

1. Calisthenic class.

2. Company drill.

FIELD EXERCISES JULY 2, 1901.

3. Bearer drill by second class.

4. Exercises with the triangular bandage by the third class.

5. Practical field work by the first class: (a) Establishment and organization of a regimental hospital. (b) First aid in the field.

Elementary anatomy, physiology, and hygiene are taught during the first month by demonstrations, lectures, and recitations. A skeleton and an excellent manikin

are used.

Bandaging is also taught during the first month by one hour's practical work daily.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY (FIRST MONTH).

[Text-books: Smart's Handbook for the Hospital Corps; Doty's Prompt Aid to the Injured.]

1, 2, 3. Anatomy of the skeleton. 4. The muscular system. 5. Review. 6. The nervous system. 7, 8, 9. The circulation of the blood. 10. Review. 11, 12. The respiratory system. 13, 14. The alimentary system. 15. Review. 16. Organs of excretion. 17. Organs of reproduction. 18. Organs of special sense. 19. Review. 20. General review.

BANDAGING (FIRST MONTH).

1. Figure of eight, gauntlet. 2. Spica of the thumb, spiral reverse of the upper extremities. 3. Spica of shoulder, single. 4. Spica of shoulder, double. 5. Spica of the foot, covering the heel. 6. Spiral reverse and figure of eight, lower extremity. 7. Spica of groin, single. 8. Spica of groin, double. 9. Barton's head bandage. 10. Velpeau bandage.

ELEMENTARY HYGIENE (FIRST MONTH).

1. Disinfection and contagious diseases (Smart, pars. 534-560; Doty, pars. 91-109). 2. Hygiene (Doty, pars. 207-222). 3. Field service (Smart, pars. 63-110; Soldier's Handbook, pars. 83-89).

DIET COOKING.

The course in diet cooking is given by Miss Elizabeth Stack, a professional nurse and dietist. Each member of the class during the month prepares the various articles of light diet as laid down in the Manual of Emergency Diet, devised by Captain Munson, assistant surgeon, United States Army.

The various ways of utilizing the articles of the travel, field, and garrison rations for the use of the sick form an important feature of this course.

NURSING AND WARD MANAGEMENT (SECOND MONTH).

[Text-book, Clara Week's Nursing.]

Nursing and ward management are also taught by Miss Stack.

1. Care and management of ward. 2. Beds and bed making. 3. Admission of patient, care of effects. 4. Observation of symptoms. 5. Thermometers, charting of temperature. 6. Observation and recording of pulse and respiration. 7. Baths and bathing. 8. Preparation of enemata and administration. 9. Disinfectants, care of utensils, sputa cups, bedpans, urinals, etc. 10. Medicine and its administration. 11. Preparation of patient for operation. 12. Treatment of inflammation, medical and surgical. 13. Asepsis, antisepsis. 14. Ward dressings, surgical and medical. 15. Ward emergencies. 16. Nursing in typhoid fever. 17. Nursing in contagious diseases. 18. Nursing in convalescence. 19. Dissolution, care of body, autopsy. 20. Review.

FIRST AID.

First aid is taught by lectures and recitations during the second month and by demonstrations and practical exercises during the third month.

First class: 1. Medical emergencies-Symptoms, diagnosis, general rules for emer

gencies, common causes of unconsciousness, poisons. 2. Demonstrations and practical instruction in the treatment of sunstroke, burns, heat exhaustion, severe hemorrhage, smothering, foreign bodies, shock, wounds of all regions, fracture dressing, use of packet. 3. The use of the field equipment-Pouches, cases, chests, furniture. 4. Practical field work.

Second class: Recitations-Asepsis and antisepsis, shock, bruises, burns, freezing, hemorrhage, the first-aid packet, wounds and their treatment, sprains, extraction of teeth, fractures, dislocations.

Materia medica and pharmacy (third and fourth months).—Instruction in this course is given in a lecture room in which a complete dispensary has been fitted up. Some time is spent in teaching the use of apparatus, the appearance of crude drugs, salts, and official preparations.

In each class of about 25 men there have been 3 or 4 who, because of deficient education or intelligence, were unable to profit by the instruction given in this course. Such men are usually dropped at the end of the first week. A few others find the subject difficult to understand, become discouraged, and fall behind. They are encouraged to do the best they can, and they usually finish the course with a proficient mark or approximating proficiency.

The course is a thorough one, and with a few months' practical experience in a hospital dispensary aims to prepare on the subject a candidate for promotion to the grade of acting hospital steward.

The man who in other respects is qualified for the latter grade has no difficulty in comprehending the work of the course or in standing well in the examination at its completion.

MATERIA MEDICA (THIRD MONTH).

The instructor is a graduate pharmacist of considerable experience.

First week: 1. The medical supply table. 2. Classification of drugs on the medical supply table. 3, 4. Definitions. 5. Review.

Second week: 1. Oxygen, hydrogen, and water. 2. Acids (mineral). 3. Acids (organic). 4. Alkalies (potassium, sodium, lithium, ammonium). 5. Review.

Third week: 1. Magnesium, zinc, and iron. 2. Lead, copper, and silver. 3. Mercury. 4. Antimony, arsenic, and bismuth. 5. Review.

Fourth week: 1. Alkaloids. 2. Volatile oils. 3. Fixed oils and fats. 4. Animal products. 5. General review.

PHARMACY (THIRD MONTH).

First week: 1,2. Metrology. 3, 4. Operations requiring heat. 5. Review. Second week: 1, 2. Operations not requiring heat. 3. The United States Pharmacopoeia, official-preparations. 4. Aqueous solutions. 5. Review.

Third week: 1, Alcoholic solutions. 2. Percolation. 3. Oleaginous solutions. 4. Ethereal solutions. 5. Review.

Fourth week: 1, 2, 3. Solid preparations. 4. Formulæ. 5. Review.

PRACTICAL COURSE IN MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACY (FOURTH MONTH).

First week: 1. Care of a United States hospital dispensary. 2. Use of weights and measures. 3. Solution, simple, chemical, gaseous. 4. Operations requiring heat.

5. Review.

Second week: 1. Operations not requiring heat. 2. Percolation. 3, 4. Official liquid preparations. 5. Review.

Third week: 1, 2, 3, 4. Official liquid preparations. 5. Review.

Fourth week: 1. The prescription. 2. Incompatibility of drugs. 3, 4. Dispensing. 5. Review.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN CLERICAL WORK.

Clerical work is taught by lectures, recitations, and the actual preparation of the different reports, returns, and records required to be made and kept at a post or field hospital. The course extends throught the third and fourth months.

The nature, objects, and methods of preparation of the following reports are explained to the class and copies of the reports are examined and criticised.

Daily reports.-1. Morning report. 2. Morning report of Hospital Corps detachment. 3. Detachment sick report. 4. Posting of register of patients. 5. Correspondence and current work.

Weekly reports.-1. Weekly report of detachment.

Trimonthly return.-1. Ration return of detachment and patients subsisted on the ration.

Monthly reports.-1. Report of completed cases. 2. Return of Hospital Corps and means of transportation. 3. Report of physical examination of recruits. 4. Statement hospital-fund account. 5. Statement ice-fund account (at posts having ice factory). 6. Personal report of medical officers. 7. Personal report and post-office addresses of staff officers (G. O., 108, 1898). 8. Sanitary report. 9. Report of repairs of hospitals and hospital stewards' quarters. 10. Ration return for those rationed

separately, requisition for fuel, forage, etc. 11. Pay rolls.

Bimonthly reports.-1. Muster rolls. 2. (Report of changes in detachment for preceding two months, rendered on the last day of each month the muster roll is not made out.)

Quarterly reports.-1. Ordnance return. 2. Return of clothing and general equipment (quartermaster), general hospitals only.

Yearly reports and returns.—1. Return of medical property. 2. Estimate of repairs to hospitals and hospital stewards' quarters. 3. Annual requisition for medical supplies. Occasional reports and returns.-1. Report of epidemic diseases. 2. Report of record books. 3. Report of deaths and interments. 4. Report of change of status, Hospital Corps. 5. Inventory and inspection reports. 6. Report of sales at public auction. 7. Report of change of combination of office safe. 8. Special requisitions, invoices, and receipts, etc.

Instruction in care of animals (third and fourth months) is given at the stable. The members of the class are taught the uses of the horse equipment, to mount and dismount with and without saddle, to harness horses, to hitch them to the ambulance, etc.

There has not been opportunity to teach ambulance driving to the extent of making each man a competent driver.

CARE OF ANIMALS (THIRD AND FOURTH MONTHS, THREE TIMES A WEEK).

1. Grooming. 2. Handling. 3. Feeding. 4. Watering. 5. Care after exercise. 6. The halter. 7. Watering bridle. 8. Curb bridle. 9. Saddle. 10. Saddle blanket. 11. To mount without saddle. 12. Position of the trooper without saddle and with saddle. 13. Holding the reins. 14. To dismount without saddle. 15. To harness horses and to hitch to the ambulance. 16. Ambulance driving.

III. RECORDS OF INSTRUCTION.

Each instructor keeps in a class book a list of the members of the class from which he calls the roll. After a recitation or drill he enters in the class book the comparative standing of each man during the hour. At the end of each week the instructor turns in to the company office the relative marks of the members of his class during the week, where they are entered in the records and placed before the company commander for his information.

At the end of each month the weekly class standings are consolidated, the members of each class are graded, and the results published, with the markings attained in each subject.

FIRST MONTH.

Setting-up drill, daily, one-half hour.

Marching and bearer drill, daily, two and one-half hours.

Anatomy and physiology, daily, one hour.

Elementary hygiene, daily, one hour.

Bandaging, daily, one hour.

Articles of War (first week), Saturday, one hour.

Hours outside drill...

Hours inside instruction

Total number of hours daily for five days

SECOND MONTH.

Setting-up drill, daily, one-half hour.

Marching and bearer drill, daily, two and one-half hours.
Ambulance drill, tent pitching, fiirst aid, daily, one hour.
Emergency cooking, daily, one hour.

Diets for the sick, daily, one hour.

Nursing and ward management (practical), daily, one hour.