Royal Prussian Hospital Rules

“In Dresden a soldier was fined because while a patient he had failed to salute in the regulated fashion at the entrance of a superior officer in the hospital ward and left his hands on the bedcovers.”
(Der wahre Jacob no. 616, Stuttgart, 1910)

“For God’s sake, man, before you die, straighten your arm — the senior staff physician is coming!”

Prussian discipline cartoon

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