THE HEALTH OF THE JAPANESE ARMY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5731, 28 October 1905, Page 11

THE HEALTH OF THE JAPANESE ARMY.

Tho manufacturer of Eumenthal Jujubes draws attention to the following remarks which appear in the “British Medical Journal” of the 13th of May last:—

“Still more striking testimony to the efficiency of tho Japanese Medical Service came from Sir Frederic Troves at tho dinner of the Japan Society hold on May 3rd. That distinguished surgeon said tho Japanese were helping as to solve many of the problems which had been a terror to all European armies. British troops entered war with many determinations. One of these was to have 10 per cent. sick. This was what they wore accuston ed to—and they got it. Now the Japanese were quite content with 1 per cent, sick, and they got it. Sir Frederic Treves did not say how our allies achieved this result. We (“The British Medical Journal”) will therefore venture to suggest an explanation. It is not that the Japanese are superior to us in tho practice of the healing art, but simply that they apply knowledge which they have Jearnt from Western nations more effectively to the necessities and emergencies of war.” Some additional details are, however, given by A. Newcombo McGee, M.D., in the May number of the “Century Magazine.” And the explanation of the low rate of mortality is, first of all, the great attention paid to sanitation; every case of sickness being treated as contagious and rigorously isolated. Hr AlcGoo further mentions the daily consumption by every soldier of several orcasoto pills as having contributed largely to tho result. It is in the administration of creasoto as a prophylatio that the manufacturer of “Eumenthol Jujubes” is particularly interested. As long ago as June, 1899, Mr W. A. Dixon, Public Analyst of Sydney, certifies:—“Following up experiments of your ‘Enmenthol Jujubes’ I have made a comparative test of them, and creosote and find there is little difference in their bactericidal action.” This is endorsed by the Lancet Laboratory report of November, 1904, which says:— “In the experiments tried tho Jujube proved to bo as effective bactcricidally as is creosote.” From the foregoing we may realise the great use for “Eumenthol Jujuhes” as a nrophylatic, especially as every one is* not able to take creasoto for any great length of time without some such discomfort as loss of appetite, nausea, etc.