Cadet Life at West Point

by Hugh T. Reed

1.—Feeble constitution; unsound health from whatever cause; indications of former disease, glandular swellings, or other symptoms of scrofula.

2.—Chronic cutaneous affections, especially of the scalp.

3.—Severe injuries of the bones of the head; convulsions.

4.—Impaired vision, from whatever cause; inflammatory affections of the eyelids; immobility or irregularity of the iris; fistula lachrymalis, &c., &c.

5.—Deafness; copious discharge from the ears.

6.—loss of many teeth, or the teeth generally unsound.

7.—Impediment of speech.

8.—Want of due capacity of the chest, and any other indication of a liability to a pulmonic disease.

9.—Impaired or inadequate efficiency of one or both of the superior extremities on account of fractures, especially of the clavicle, contraction of a joint, deformity, &c.