A manual of the climate and diseases of tropical countries : in which a practical view of the statistical pathology and of the history and treatment of the diseases of those countries is attempted to be given : calculated chiefly as a guide to the young medical practitioner on his first resorting to those countries / by Colin Chisholm.

  • Colin Chisholm
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1822
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Credit: A manual of the climate and diseases of tropical countries : in which a practical view of the statistical pathology and of the history and treatment of the diseases of those countries is attempted to be given : calculated chiefly as a guide to the young medical practitioner on his first resorting to those countries / by Colin Chisholm. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CONTENTS. PART I. ©N THE STATISTICAL PATHOLOGY OF TROPICAL COUN- TRIES, MORE ESPECIALLY THE WEST INDIES. Page. CHAP. I.. .On the General Structure and Appearance of the West India Islands, and their Climate. 1 -CHAP. II. .On the Climate, within the Tropics, as it tends to the Production of Disease 6 CHAP. III..On the Means of Preparing the European Constitution for the Process of Assimilation to the Tropica! Climate 10 CHAP. IV. .The Seasons compared with regard to Health ; and the Diseases Incident to each, in the West Indies 16 CHAP. V..Of Adventitious and Sporadic Diseases; 24 Sect. I.. .Means of Prevention depending on Public Policy, ih. Sect. II..Means of Prevention depending on individual Precaution 26 Sect. III.. .Medical Means of Prevention 27 Sect. IV...Dietetic Regulations and Moral Conduct .... 29 PART II. OF THE DISEASES OF HOT CLIMATES, MORE ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE WEST INDIES. CHAP. I. .Of the Yellow Remittent Fever 32 Treatment 44 CHAP. II.. .Intermittent Fever 49 Treatment 50 CHAP. III...Dysentery 53 Idiopathic Dysentery ib. Hepatic Dysentery 58 Chronic Aphthae 61 CHAP. IV. Hepatitis 63 Anomalous 65 Acute 68 Chronic 71 CHAP. V. Enteritis 8] CHAP. VI. Cholera Morbus 85 CHAR Vll. Cholica Pictonum 93