Practical observations on fever, dysentery, and liver complaints, as they occur amongst the European troops in India ; to which is annexed, an essay on syphilis / by George Ballingall.

  • Ballingall, George, 1780-1855.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Practical observations on fever, dysentery, and liver complaints, as they occur amongst the European troops in India ; to which is annexed, an essay on syphilis / by George Ballingall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE SELECTION OF YOUNG MEN FOB. MILITARY SERVICE IN INDIA. When the destructive diseases of tropical cli- mates once gain footing in a regiment or an army, the devastation they occasion is melan- choly to contemplate. The task of a medical man becomes peculiarly irksome when he finds bis most strenuous exertions insufficient to ar- rest the progress of disease ; and when he sees remedies, in which he has hitherto been led to place confidence, used without any effectual re- lief, he begins to contrast the formidable nature of disease with the limited powers of medicine, and to see, in a very striking point of view, how much his success in diminishing the fatality of tropicar climates must depend upon prevention rather than on cure. B