"THERE WERE TWO REASONS WHY MEN TRIED TO FAIL THE ARMY MEDICAL EXAM. First, the recruit had been tricked into enlisting; or, second, they were hustlers who enlisted repeatedly to defraud the recruiters out of bounty money, food, drink, and lodging.
In the Napoleonic Wars, the British recruiting system was broken. A major problem was the responsibility put on inspecting army surgeons (medical officers). If the surgeon allowed a recruit to pass that was in fact unfit to serve, he was held financially accountable for all the expenses of that failed recruit. In short, army surgeons were motivated not to pass those they inspected.
How the process worked was, the recruit was brought by the recruiting party to the medical officer. Upon arriving at the surgeon's residence, one recruit described what happened next: "I was called in first and stripped naked and examined carefully as to soundness of my internal systems, the limbs, and the eye sight. I was ordered to walk fast and slow and put my body in different positions of difficulty." …"
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Armand
paints the Dogman from the Flintloque starter set.
