Statistics of cholera / by Edward Balfour.

  • Edward Green Balfour
Date:
1870
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Credit: Statistics of cholera / by Edward Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mercy provided remedies for their cure, and those who entirely adopt this belief will doubtless continue to search exclusively for means of removing this and other maladies ; but, without in any way wishing to damp the energy of such inquirers, I think all Medical men will allow the superiority of) prophylactic over mere curative measures, and admit that those who regard disease as the consequence of an infraction of the physical laws decreed for our guidance, and consi- der it as a warning to observe these laws more strictly for the future, take|a no less]elevated view of their duties ; for we thereby open to ourselves a vast field for the exercise of benevolence in discovering the source of disease and the means of preventing it; whilst, if we take the former view, we may look on with apathy till sickness break forth, and though we may then exert all our energies and employ all the means furnished by art and science to subdue it, the following pages will too clearly show, that, in combatting with Cholera, at least, we shall meet with but little^success :— I have given below* a list of the sources from which the informa- tion contained in the following pages is derived ; I have great plea- sure in stating that all my brother officers, in the Madras Presidency, have evinced the greatest^willingness to assist me, by furnishing me with extracts from the records of their departments, and I beg to offer to the Members of the Medical Board, Surgeon George Pearse, and Assistant Surgeon Lorimer^my best thanks for their kindness. * Statistical Keports on the Sickness, Moiiality and Invaliding of H. M. Troops Vols. 1838, 1839, 1840 and 1841. Statistical Eeports on the Health of the Navy, Vols. 1840 and 1841. Reports on the Medical Topography of the Madras Army, Vols. 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1844. Johnson and Martin on Tropical Climates, Edition 1841. Dr. Lorimer's Report on Cholera, 1846. Records of the Madras Medical Board's Office. Records of the Office of the Superintending Surgeon Ceded Districts. Surgeon James Macgregor H. M. K. 0. Borderers, in Madi-as Medical Journal. Parliamentary Return, 17th February 1847. Dr. Forrie's IJeport on the United States Army.
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