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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    veris primordia hirundines, aut insequentis tem- pestatis fervorem cuculus, amare consuevit.” And in another place he states — “ exeunte sestate [anni 1676] cholera morbus epidemic^ jam saevie- bat, et insueto tempestatis calore evectus atrociora convulsionum symptomata, eaque, dinturniora, se- cum trahebat.”* But these expressions, when duly weighed and considered in connexion with the context, shew merel3^ that cholera morbus prevailed more generally than it had been ob- served usually to have done, owing to the more manifest causes from which the disease arises having existed, at those periods, in greater force than usual. A few years’ experience in London, or, indeed, in any district of country, is sufficient to shew, that cholera prevails more generally during the summer and autumn of one year than of another, owing to the difference in the character of the seasons ; yet, altliough it may be said to be epidemic in these years of its more than usual prevalence, in one sense of the word,—viewing the word epidemic with reference to its etymology, — it cannot be con- sidered as being truly epidemic, when the ge- neral relations and circumstances of the disease are more fully and generally investigated. What has now been remarked, with respect to the observations made by Sydenham, is equally * Opera Universa. Lugd. 1726, pp. 171 et 295.