Volume 1

Researches into the causes, nature, and treatment of the more prevalent diseases of India, and of warm climates generally. Illustrated with cases, post mortem examinations, and numerous coloured engravings of morbid structures / by James Annesley.

  • Annesley, James, Sir, 1780-1847.
Date:
1828
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Credit: Researches into the causes, nature, and treatment of the more prevalent diseases of India, and of warm climates generally. Illustrated with cases, post mortem examinations, and numerous coloured engravings of morbid structures / by James Annesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is hot, the wind blowing from the contrary side is extremely violent when it approaches those moun¬ tains which lie on the heated side, while it may be almost calm in the low country. In Mysore, during the hot winds in the Carnatic, the wind rushes like a torrent over the Eastern Ghaut; and in the months of December and January it blows a hurricane over the great mountains in the Koorg. This is regular, and may afford you hints.—Adieu. Yours, “ W. LAMBTON.” On the Medical Topography of the Districts under the Bombay Presidency. [See p. 161.] We have been favoured by Lieut.-Colonel Briggs with the following interesting account of the districts under the Bombay Presidency. Colonel Briggs’s well-known talents and science, as well as his very intimate knowledge of the country he describes, and of every thing interesting connected with our Indian territories, give great importance and value to his observations : — “ The territory under the Presidency of Bombay extends from the vicinity of Goa northward, along the sea coast, to the latitude of the northern tropic, and it occupies a space inland from the sea varying from 100 to 200 miles. The most remarkable features of this superficial area are, in the first place, the inequalities of the elevation of the several districts above the sea; secondly, the ranges of lofty mountains which intersect it; and thirdly, the open plains and the forests which occasionally intervene. That part which lies along the coast is bounded by the range usually denominated the Western Ghauts, and is called, by the people of the country, * Concan.’ This is subdivided by us into the northern and southern, of which the Panwell river, immediately opposite to Bombay, is considered the boundary. The northern limit of North Concan terminates where it meets the district of Surat. “ The Concan exhibits, for the most part, a stratum of iron ore, is diversified by hill and dale, and thickly studded with wood. It presents also, throughout its whole extent, the usual concomitant of hot springs which abound in every direction, varying in temperature as far as 160° of Fahrenheit. The valleys of the Concan produce rice and other esculents, commonly grown in wet soils and moist climates. The numerous inlets from the sea, which connect with the mountain torrents, render the country liable to frequent and extensive inundations during the rainy months. With all these disadvantages, however, the Concan is by no means deemed unwholesome, and some few spots, such as Dapooly, near Savendroog, elevated a few hundred feet only above the sea, have been found to be peculiarly healthy. Fevers do occasionally occur during the autumnal months, but they have neither been considered very common or very malignant. The mountains lying to the east of the Concan, and which define its limit in that direction, are called Syhadree, or Singhadree, from their being much infested with tigers. From this great range, extending as far as to the neighbourhood of Surat,