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

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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, the director-general of the Army Medical Depart ment, * 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.

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