Practical observations on fever, dysentery, and liver complaints : as they occur amongst the European troops in India : with introductory remarks on the disadvantages of selecting boys for Indian military service / by George Ballingall.

Date:
1818
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Credit: Practical observations on fever, dysentery, and liver complaints : as they occur amongst the European troops in India : with introductory remarks on the disadvantages of selecting boys for Indian military service / by George Ballingall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    able circumstances under which anatomical investigations are prosecuted in the climate of India; and when we find that, of all the deaths occurring in that country, three-fourths are attributed to Dysentery, it is to be hoped that future inquirers will not relax in their en- deavours to arrive at the most just views of its nature, and the most successful mode of treatment. The paper on Liver Complaints is probably more limited than many would expect, but it will be seen by the returns I have given, that the deaths distinctly referred to disease of the liver, are not so numerous as is generally be- lieved in Europe ; and as I have thoughts of a more extended work on this subject, I leave it for the present with less regret. My object has been, in the few observations I have made on Hepatitis, to paint this disease as chiefly dangerous, from being overlooked at its com- mencement, and meeting with inefficient or improper treatment in its earlier stages. My wish has been to direct the attention of prac- titioners to those symptoms which character-