On The Issue Of A Spirit Ration

Author : E. A. Parkes
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ISBN 13 : 9781332289547
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book On the Issue of a Spirit Ration During the Ashanti Campaign of 1874 written by E. A. Parkes and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Issue of a Spirit Ration During the Ashanti Campaign of 1874: To Which Are Added Two Appendices Containing Experiments to Show the Relative Effects of Rum, Meat Extract and Coffee, During Marching, and the Use of Oatmeal Drink During Heavy Labour The following pages contain a reprint of a Report on the issue of spirits during the Ashanti campaign, which was written for Sir William M. Muir, K. C. B., the Director-General of the Army Medical Department, and was by him communicated to the 'Lancet.' I have added to it two Appendices as contributions towards the answer of a question of high importance, not only to soldiers, but to all who are called on to make great bodily exertion without the power of obtaining the usual food and rest. When, as so frequently happens in campaigns, soldiers are marching nearly the whole of the day, and can obtain their regular food only late in the evening, what can be given to lessen the sense of great fatigue, and to enable them, not only to continue the march, but to be ready for any emergency which may arise? It must be something easily carried, and easily prepared and served out, as any long halt may be impossible. The usual resort is to a spirit ration, and there is no doubt that for a time this exerts a reviving effect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.