Essay on the origin, progress and treatment of cholera : with remarks on berriberri and diet as connected with endemics and epidemics / by James Bankier.

  • Bankier James.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Essay on the origin, progress and treatment of cholera : with remarks on berriberri and diet as connected with endemics and epidemics / by James Bankier. 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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    INTRODUCTION. The importance, and real value, of the ac- quisition of new Territories, affordino;- scope or attraction to the Natives of Great Britain, must on sober reflection be reg-arded as de- pending, in a very high degree, on the dis- eases which are to be encountered, in con- trast with the power or wealth which is to be acquired. Viewed in this light the Physician, equally with the political economist, will find the re- gions of India an extensive and interesting field of observation ; and although the latter might conclude his labours, by arguing the expediency of preventing our population from proceeding in such numbere to a land in^ which so many have been cut off, chiefly by one of the diseases to which all in that climate are subject; yet the former, instead of rest- ing here, will remember that it is not his own country alone, or the health and happi- ness of his own countrymen merely, which are to engross, or terminate his exertions, but that his species generally, without regard to locality and the ailments which human flesh is heir to in their causes, amelioration,