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Credit: Medical notes on China / By John Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![intended or desirable; and althoiigli there was improve- ment subsequently, there was often bodily suffering and languor to such an amount, during the remaining period of service, as to interfere with the accomplishment of his objects. Still he hopes that the outline which he has been able to give of the climate, climatorial influence, and topo- graphical attributes of Hong-Kong, acting on health, will be acce])table. In sketching the leading forms of disease, and the agents producing them, treatment, except incidentally, and for a special purpose, has not been entered on. What was thought fit to be written on that subject, was reserved for a separate place, that the former, not being encumbered and disturbed by other details, might be as clear as possible ; the latter has been condensed as much as appeared compatible with perspicuity. The chapter on Chinese medicines is necessarily im- perfect, as the available sources of information respecting it were very limited, and the writer's time, while gather- ing what he could from them, was much occupied with his direct duties. The matter besides was, in a great measure, extraneous, and beyond the scope of his pri- mary and principal subjects of inquiry. But, as it is curious in itself, and appeared interesting as illustrative of the state of the Chinese mind generally, through this department of physics, he thought that a little leisure might be employed not altogether unprofitably on it. Such are the subjects to which the writer deems it proper to allude, in prefacing a publication like this, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21363742_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
