Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India ; comprising a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East; statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different divisions of the army under the Madras presidency; embracing also the annual rate of mortality, &c. Practical observations on the effects of calomel on the alimentary canal and on the diseases most prevalent in India. Also an inquiry into chronic inflammations and abscess of the liver. / By James Annesley.

  • Annesley, James, Sir, 1774-1847.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India ; comprising a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East; statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different divisions of the army under the Madras presidency; embracing also the annual rate of mortality, &c. Practical observations on the effects of calomel on the alimentary canal and on the diseases most prevalent in India. Also an inquiry into chronic inflammations and abscess of the liver. / By James Annesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE. There are few diseases which have excited more interest among medical men, or more terror in the mind of the Indian community at large, than the epidemic cholera. The various and contradictory views entertained at different times respecting it, shew dis- tinctly our ignorance of the real nature of the disease itself, as well as of any successful means of combating it. During such uncer- tainty it is the duty of every practitioner who has had extensive experience, or who considers that he can add to the stock of information respecting it, to contribute what- ever may be in his possession. It is only by such means that sufficient data can be ob- tained, whence sound views may be deduced respecting its treatment, and the limitation of its ravages. The medical charge of the garrison of Fort Saint George, and of the general hos- pital of the Madras Presidency for a period , b