first cases is delayed, usually spread with great rapidity. In future wars we must expect the military authorities to do all they can, just as soon as the prisoners are taken, to segregate as carefully as possible all known and suspected cases of infectious diseases. The difficulties confronting the military authorities, when it is necessary to remove large numbers of prisoners with all possible dispatch away from the scene of the war, are, to be sure, very great. Finally, we must also call attention to the danger to which the civil inhabitants of a country are exposed, when the soldiers return home after the termination of a campaign in an infected region. It must be demanded under all circumstances that divisions of troops among whom infectious diseases have made their appearance, before returning from the enemy’s country, shall be subjected to a medical examination, isolated, and disinfected, just as was done on such a large scale, for example, by the Japanese after the wars with China and Russia. This also applies to all other persons who have had anything to do with infected divisions, particularly to teamsters. All preparations designed to prevent the outbreak and dissemination of infectious diseases must be made in times of peace; barracks and lazarets must be erected, physicians who are well acquainted with methods of hygienic investigation must be available, and an adequate number of nurses and sick-attendants must be prepared for immediate service at the very first appearance of an infectious disease. For the military authorities, who can scarcely perform all the duties that the beginning of a war imposes upon them, it will facilitate matters greatly if in future campaigns the Red Cross devotes its attention, not only to the care of the wounded, but also, on a larger scale than it has heretofore, to the prevention of the outbreak and dissemination of war-pestilences. INDEX Acre, pestilence, 14. Adrianople, bubonic plague epidemic 1829, 168 f. del Agua, 277. Algiers, typhus epidemic 1868, 195 f. Amoebic dysentery, 7 f. Amsterdam, pestilence 1624, 72. Andersonville prison, 181. Anti-vaccinationists, 198, 251, 260, 269. Armenia, plague epidemic 1828, 169 f. Athens, plague, 11. Augsburg, pestilence 1634, 58 f.; pestilence 1703, 80; small-pox epidemic 1871, 259. Austria, small-pox epidemic 1872, 275 f. Barbarossa, 12 f. Basel, small-pox epidemic 1870, 271 f. Baudens, 174. Baumgarten, von, 326. Bavaria, typhus epidemic 1813, 149 f. Beitzke, 122, 129, 132. Belgium, small-pox epidemic 1870, 273 f. Beri-beri, 298. Berlin, pestilence 1637, 69; small-pox epidemic 1871, 230 f.; typhus fever epidemic 1813, 124 f. Berne, small-pox epidemic 1870, 271. Bernstein, 140. Black Death, 6. Blech, 122, 308, 309, 310. Boehnke, 195. Boersch, 29, 78. Boin, 103, 104. le Borne, 95. Bouchut, 322. Bourchardet, 320. Brandeis, 12. Braun, 151.