Observations on hepatic diseases, incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies / by Stephen Mathews.

Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on hepatic diseases, incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies / by Stephen Mathews. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    There are not many wood-lands con- tiguous to this fettlement, which we naturally determine to be a favour- able circumftance; but there are many very large and extenlive lakes, with a gi^at number of tanks, natural and arti- ficial, which all tend to increafe the moifture of the atmofphere, and preclude the falutary effedts of variable and light winds. Difeafes generated at this time are much more tedious and difficult to remove, and their effeas more feverely felt, than of thofe complaints which arife from inflammatory and putrefcent fources ift the hot months. Another circum- ftance meriting our confideration, is the -fuppreflion of exercife during the wet feafon; for Europeans, at all times here, are rather inclined to indulgence; and if the neceflary quantity of exercife or amufement is not continued to which the conftitution has been accuftomed, the event will be produftive of indifpo- fition. There are more errors committed on the fame point of the compafs, and from the con- trary on the other fix. ^ by