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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    All these evils would, in my opinion, be great- ly alleviated by sending out older men. Men, after a certain time of life, are more disposed to look into futurity, their passions are in some measure blunted, they do not enter with the same heedless velocity into a participation of the destructive habits they may have occasion to witness, and are not apt to injure themselves by many of the frivolous and mischievous enjoy- ments of younger men. Soldiers accustomed to the active exertion usual in temperate climates, would consider the common duties in India an agreeable relaxation; accustomed hitherto to do every thing for themselves, they would feel more independent of the assistance of the inhabitants j and the European barracks would not be crowd- ed, as they now are, with hordes of the most profligate and abandoned of the natives, ready, in the first instance, to assist the soldiery in de- vising and employing the most ingenious strata- gems for procuring liquor, and afterwards ready to plunder and rob them while under its influ- ence. Soldiers accustomed to habits of order and temperance would find the regulated allow- ance of spirits adequate to their desiresj and men, at that time of life when their passions be- gin to be controlled by prudence, would be less 5