On preservation of health in India / by Sir Joseph Fayrer.

  • Joseph Fayrer
Date:
1880
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Credit: On preservation of health in India / by Sir Joseph Fayrer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    posted. But the young engineer very often has no such guidance, and loses his health before he has learnt prudence. “ The matter is one of some importance. The accounts which have lately come home of sickness among them is really distressing. And more than one of them, in writing to us here, has deplored his want of a little elementary medical knowledge, not only on his own account, but from his inability to treat his work-people with the most simple remedies when out with them alone in the jungle.” I am aware that to gentlemen of your education and attainments much of what I shall say may seem trite and common-place, but as it is best for my purpose to do so, I shall assume that you are practically unacquainted with the subject, and treat it accordingly. Few people, I imagine, who have not been there, appre- ciate the importance, or realise the vastness of British India. Let me remind you of some prominent facts relat- ing to the country in which your future career is to be spent. That extensive portion of the British dominions which gives to our Queen the title of Empress, and is called “ the brightest jewel in her crown,” is the great central and southern promontory of Asia, lying between the fifth and thirty-fourth parallel of north latitude, and the sixty-sixth and ninety-seventh meridians of east longitude. It includes a portion of Afghanistan in the north-west, and part of the country on the eastern side of the Bay of Bengal, extending from Chittagong to Tenasserim as far south as the tenth parallel of north latitude, and has a coast line extending for more than 4000 miles. It is about 1900 miles from Peshawur to Cape Comorin; and about the same distance from Sudya—a frontier post in Assam, to Kurrachee, at the mouth of the Indus ; from Bombay to Point Palmyras in Orissa it is 900 miles. The superficial area is above 1,600,000 miles,— equal to the whole of Europe, excluding Russia, and three- fifths are directly under British rule.
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