Volume 1

Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India : comprising a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East, statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different divisions of the army under the Madras presidency ... / by by James Annesley.

  • Annesley, James, Sir, 1780-1847.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India : comprising a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East, statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different divisions of the army under the Madras presidency ... / by by James Annesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -of the Madras Presidency for a period of five years, (from 1819 to 1823,) during which pe- riod the spasmodic cholera raged with great violence, gave the Author ample opportu- nities. of observing this malady in all its examinations after death, which should never be omitted where any doubt exists of the real nature of a disease. Respecting the cases which are detailed in this part of the work, the Author thinks it necessary to remark, in explanation of a seeming incongruity existing between the treatment of a few of them and the princi- ples he has advocated, that these particular cases were treated in the hospital of which he had charge, by well qualified and very meritorious medical officers, to whom he committed the care of them; that he was desirous of knowing the result of a method of cure, in behalf of which much might, perhaps, be adduced; and that he was de- sirous that rational views should not be placed under any restraint which might savour of narrow-mindedness. ¥