Observations on hepatic diseases, incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies / by Stephen Mathews.

Date:
1783
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    a fuperabundance of bile, or other lie- patic complaints, are the fole predominant difeafes of the Eaft Indies i but we are inclined to thhik, that whatever may be the caufes of many other diforders, the general termination is blended with bilious fymptoms, and whoever has had much practice in the Hon. Company's fervice, or on board their (hips, we make no doubt will readily acquiefce in this opinion. This is farther juftified by the mode of praclice fo univerfally adopted without much alteration, by the gentlemen of the faculty. Could we confine bilious com- plaints to the aged, who are doomed to encounter difeafe in fome of its fliapes ' before diffolution takes place, or to thofe who, naturally pofieffed of a good con- ftitution, take unbounded liberties with tbeir health, merely to accommodate themfelves to their convivial compani- ons : could we, I fay, confine complaints, which are infeparable from irregularities, to thofe only who by their imprudencies meiit