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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    40/338 (page 12)
    posite description. Hard indeed would be the lot of good men were they to find disease and death the result of regularity and temperance, and to see health and long life the consequences of riot and debauchery. The habits prevalent in every country, and which are always to a certain extent influenced by the climate, must have due weight in deter- mining upon the description of men best calcu- lated to resist its influence; and wherever bad ha- bits are already prevalent, they are much more likely to be adopted by young men at the age of eighteen or twenty, than by well trained sol<- diers at a more advanced period of life. Men at the age of twenty-five, thirty, or upwards, are capable of as much, or perhaps more service in India, than they would be after the same age in Europe; for, in the former, they are less liable to suffer from pulmonary and rheumatic affec- tions, which prove so destructive to elderly men in our variable climate j while, on the other hand, I am not aware that there is a single dis- ease peculiar to advanced life, which is likely to be aggravated by residence in a tropical cli- mate. Such climates are certainly calculated to bring on premature old age, particularly if com- bined with thoughtlessness and dissipation, but,