Specific instructions were given concerning the sanitation of the soldiers' lodgings: "The barracks has to be built on dry, high ground. It has to be well ventilated . . . and its windows have to be facing each other so that the air can pass through." When these regulations failed, as indeed they had when, for example, a big rise in the cases of syphilis (frengi) and scabies (cereb) was recorded among the soldiers, Clot Bey, in another specially printed manual, ordered army doctors to inspect their men, soldiers, NCOs and officers to isolate those afflicted with either of these two diseases.

DEFINE: Defines Clot Bey's role in developing medical inspection manuals that addressed specific diseases like syphilis and scabies among soldiers. Builds on: "Laws alone failed to discipline recruits into internalizing army regulations."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 727