A further inquiry into the comparative infrequency of calculous diseases among sea-faring people : with some observations on their frequency in Scotland / by Alex. Copland Hutchison.

Date:
1830
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Credit: A further inquiry into the comparative infrequency of calculous diseases among sea-faring people : with some observations on their frequency in Scotland / by Alex. Copland Hutchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The present official returns from the medical de- partment of the navy embrace a period of thirteen years, that is from the 1st of January, 1816, to the 1st of January, 1829, which here, at least, will be commencing the inquiry where I left it off. My correspondence with the medical officers of the civil sea port hospitals on the present occasion, will be found not always to agree with the period specified in the official returns from the sick and wounded department of the navy. They are, however, for seldom less than ten years, for which, indeed, I only asked returns; and I embrace this opportunity of offering my best thanks to Mr. Barrow and Mr. Bedford, of the Admiralty, to the Medical Commissioners of the Navy, and to the various Gentlemen herein after mentioned, for their very kind communications in reply to my let- ters, to whom, in most instances, I am personally unknown, and whose conduct on this occasion, clearly proves the zeal and ardour with which scien- tific inquiries are now encouraged in this country. I shall now, without further comment, lay be- fore the Society, a summary of the documents I have collected during the last few months, briefly best remedies in these diseases. I have had several proofs in my own practice that, in decidedly scrophulous cases, where they were sent from town to enjoy sea-air and bathing, the dis- ease was completely subdued, but on their return to London, scrophula again shewed itself as before, in an incredibly short period.
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