Volume 1

Report on the epidemic cholera : as it has appeared in the territories subject to the Presidency of Fort St. George ... / by William Scot.

  • Scot, William, -1863
Date:
1849
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Credit: Report on the epidemic cholera : as it has appeared in the territories subject to the Presidency of Fort St. George ... / by William Scot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, THe Madras Report on Cholera was printed by order of the government of that presidency in 1824. The greater part of the edition was reserved for India, and only a limited number of copies transmitted to the India House for distribution in this country. It was the last published of the official reports, and was written with the advantage of a more extended experience of the disease; but this had not led to any decided or authoritative opinions regarding its nature, nor to any knowledge of a mode of treatment which could be relied upon as successful : all was uncertain. The object of the report, therefore, was neither to pro- nounce opinions, nor to lay down rules, but simply to con- vey a clear and impartial summary of the observations and practice in cholera, as these were exhibited in the official communications of medical officers to their superiors; ac- companying it with a very large mass of these original papers, in order that all might judge for themselves. At that period, it was considered to be of importance, in any inquiry into the nature of cholera, that there should be ample statistical information, both in respect to the state of health of the army, and to the phenomena of the weather for some time preceding the appearance of cholera and afterwards ; and this was supplied by a voluminous series of sick returns and meteorological tables, extending from a
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