Show Released by Western RECRUIT MUST TELL ALL When a recruit is being examined for the he should not hesitate to tell the examining physician his whole medical unless he has had some definite ailment or he 1 may fail to mention blamed on Mb I ing the wrong foods I m eating when tired HB m or He may i eel if he makes L BB mention of her-e tri- imM ling the ex i Barton physician may get the idea that he is the The result is that within a few weeks or even months of army I he is brought before a medi-j cal board and sent to hospital for observation and By failing to tell of his attacks of indigestion or bringing a certified I statement of these attacks from his physician to the army medical ex- he may put the country to considerable expense and himself to much inconvenience I am writing this because a report from Dr J. M. in the Brit-I ish Lancet states that of cases I of indigestion reported in one sion had definite organic disease of the stomach and first part I of small intestine and i were discharged from the service I as permanently unfit The remain ing after investigation and a I short course of were returned to states that when it has been definitely learned that a soldier has ulcer he should be discharged from the army immediately returned to civilian life where diet and tranquillity of mind are Before enlistment these individuals were leading useful lives in the service of their country and should be returned to such In the J army they remain a burden to I themselves and to Most physicians and physicians who have had much to do with cases in civil and army hospitals will agree with that a chronic indigestion patient is a real The is that family physicians and patients themselves should have no false sense of but should state by certificate and in person if there is a history of acute attacks or chronic symptoms of indigestion present |