Just for fun

Here are a some funny statements we've found in some of the documents (mostly surgeons' certificates) of our Civil War soldiers.

• Insomnia caused from over intellectual action or some other emotion of the mind

• No indication of disturbance of brain nutrition from overuse or worry

• Entitled to divorce as prayed for

• Ribs are not claimed and not found to exist

• I am unable to tell how long this man will live, but he now smells like a dead man

• If he would drink less stimulants he would feel better

• Beard grows snug up to eye winkers

• Got typhoid fever for Christmas 1862

• Respiratory organs – no objective evidence of any

• He throws up his lung constant

• Deafness left leg

• Rheumatism of brain and teeth

• Cannot tell a man from a woman if it is cloudy

• The eyes feel constantly as if they were falling from the sockets

• Low specific gravity due to eating freely of watermelons