On serpent-worship and on the venomous snakes of India / by Sir Joseph Fayrer.

  • Joseph Fayrer
Date:
1892?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On serpent-worship and on the venomous snakes of India / by Sir Joseph Fayrer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    aX. tcJixA^^a^ ^'o£jli ‘s. CARLSBAD AND ITS THERMAL WATERS FOR ANGLO-INDIANS. By Sir J. FAYRER, m.d., p.r.s. My old friend, Surgeon-Colonel Harvey, President of the Calcutta Congress, having re- quested me to contribute a paper on the advantages of a visit to Carlsbad by Anglo-Indians who are suffering from the effects of climate and tropical disease, 1 have much pleasure in complying with his request, know- ing from personal experience and observation of the results to many who have gone there on my recom- mendation that great benefit is often conferred, not only on those who have had to leave India on sick furlough, but on others who have retired from the service and still suffer from the consequences of prolonged sojourn in a hot and malarial climate. It has always appeared to me that this most valu- able of health resorts is neither sufficiently known nor appreciated, and that erroneous impressions as to the depressing and debilitating effects of the waters and diet exist which better knowledge would probably remove. Carlsbad, like other health resorts, is not suitable to all complaints, but for a large number of chronic functional disorders, to which old Indians especially
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