. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . FIG. 3346.—Wall Tent. Fig. 3343.—Common Tent. my impression that a good bedsack, with a reasonablyfrequent change of hay or .straw, is more comfortableand more healthful than the cotton mattress after it hasbeen used a few months. All bedding of whatever kindshould be freely exposed to the sim half a day at leastonce a week, and the more frequently the better. Blan-kets should be aired and sunned every tine day, andneither dampness nor overheating should be tolera


. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . FIG. 3346.—Wall Tent. Fig. 3343.—Common Tent. my impression that a good bedsack, with a reasonablyfrequent change of hay or .straw, is more comfortableand more healthful than the cotton mattress after it hasbeen used a few months. All bedding of whatever kindshould be freely exposed to the sim half a day at leastonce a week, and the more frequently the better. Blan-kets should be aired and sunned every tine day, andneither dampness nor overheating should be toleratedwithin the quarters. Tents (tad Camps.—In the field the improved conical(or modified Siblej), the common (or wall-A), or the shel-ter tent (tente dabri) are used for soldiers and the walltent for officers. In very active operations officers mayuse tents like those of their men. Hereafter, accordingto lecent instructions, all tents willbe tan color instead of white. Theconic U ind wall tents are used forcamps of some ]iermanence, or forslow movements in heavy marchingoidei the shelter tent is used oncimpaign. As now i


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