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The Influence of Tropical Climates More Especially the Climate of India on European Constitutions
The Influence of Tropical Climates More Especially the Climate of India on European Constitutions Author:James Johnson Subtitle: The Principal Effects and Diseases Thereby Induced, Their Prevention or Removal, and the Means of Preserving Health in Hot Climates : Rendered Obvious to Europeans of Every Capacity General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1815 Original Publisher: J. Callow Subjects: Tropical medicine Medical climatology ... more » Human beings Medical geography Bioclimatology Naval hygiene Naval discipline Travel by physicians India Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Bilious Fever. B. Island, 1th April. The patients from the hospital daily gain strength and appetite; more particularly those whose mouths are well affected with mercury. All the fevers experience a nocturnal exacerbation ; in some ushered in with rigors. In Bombay Hospital this fever runs great lengths. Several patients are quite yellow, with debility -- severe pain across the epigastrium, in the head, and in the loins. No great acceleration of pulse; but all are much worse at night than during the day. Calomel, opium, and antimonial powder, internally, with frictions of the ung. hyd. and frequent purgatives, are the means employed by the physicians of the hospital. They also tried the bark and nitrous acid, with the worst success : it generally occasioned great sickness at -stomach, stricture on the surface, and obstructed perspiration, with universal inquietude. Removed 32 cases more of fever to Butcher's Island from the hospital, B. Island, 10th April. The bilious fever not near so prevalent now, as when we were on board; and in all attacks the symptoms are milder. The patients from the hospital promise fair; some have dysenteric complaints, which go off as the mouth becomes sorer. Two fresh attacks, with much pain i...« less