Report on the medical topography and statistics of the ceded districts / Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office.

  • Madras State
Date:
1844
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Credit: Report on the medical topography and statistics of the ceded districts / Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lemons, pineapples, pomegranates, peaches, mangoes, and melons. Of the vegetable productions of the Materia Medica, there are found the ricinus communis, croton tiglium, cucumis colocinthidis, datura stramonium, dolichos pruriens, punica granatum, sinapis alba, piper cubeba, cassia fistula, rosa cen- tifolia, ruta graveolens, atropa belladonna, amomum zingiber, coriandrum sativum, ficus carica and citrus medicus. A good sort of pony is bred at Kurnool, and the game fowls are remarkable for their beauty and courage. Several kinds of excellent fish are found in the Toombud- dra, the chief of which are carp and murrell. Manufactures. Kurnool has its manufactures of muslins, stout calicoes, cotton carpets, gold and silver ornaments, copper and brass vessels, iron utensils, clay goglets, slippers, saddle cloths, indigo and arrack. European and Chinese goods, as well as the produce of the district, are to be obtained in the shops, and many useful as well as medicinal articles in the ba- zaars. Inhabitants, nee cee] The Patans of Kurnool are a handsome race, polite, and courteous in manners and address, and fond of horsemanship, cock-fighting and ram-fights. The better sort live well, animal food and wheaten cakes constituting a large portion of their food, but the poorer classes and labouring hin- doos, subsist chiefly on rice, jouaree and bajree, with meat or fish occasionally. The poor all sleep upon cots, or char-paes. The inhabitants in general, notwithstanding they are said habitually to make use of opium and tobacco, attain toa goodold age, though without any remarkable instances of longevity. FortofKurnool. The fort built upon the base of the triangle be- fore mentioned, is 879 yards in length from north to south, and 689 in breadth, from east to west; its walls are built of limestone and sand stone, are 17 feet high, and 9 feet thick ; the northern and eastern faces are washed by the Toombuddra and a deep and broad dry ditch runs from west to south.—