Volume 3

Handbook of geographical and historical pathology / by August Hirsch ; translated from the second German edition by Charles Creighton.

  • Hirsch, August, 1817-1894.
Date:
1883-1886
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Credit: Handbook of geographical and historical pathology / by August Hirsch ; translated from the second German edition by Charles Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G On tlxe other hand respiratory catarrhs are common on the coast and interior table-land of Abyssinia? in Nubia, in the hill-country of Kordofan, and in other parts of the Soudan. There is tho same contrast as regards these catarrhs, between the Zanzibar10 coast, where they are comparatively rare, and the Mozambique coast? the Comoro Islands (Mayotte),4, Madagascar? Nossi-Be? the Seychelles? Reunion? and Mauritius? in all of which they arc common. On St. Helena, again, they would appear to be rare, inasmuch as, according to the ‘ Army Medical Reports,’ only 150 cases were treated for bronchitis in a total force of 4550 men during the period 1860-1868, or 33 per 1000. In the interior of South Africa?l as well as at the Gape? respiratory catarrhs are among the most frequently observed maladies ; and the same holds good absolutely, and more particularly in the case of natives and acclimatized Europeans, for the West Coast of Africa,13 the West African Islands of San nav.,’ 1873, Sept., 161; Pissas, ‘ Congres des medecins Grecs,’ &c., Constantinople, 1883, 17. 1 Pruner, 1. c. j Aubert-Roclie, ‘ Amial. d’hyg.,’ xxxiii, 21; Courbon, ‘ Obscrv. topogr. et med.,’ &c.. Par., 1861, 31; Blanc, ‘ Gaz. hebdomad.,’ 1874, Nr. 21, 333. 2 Quintin, ‘Extrait d’un voyage dans le Soudan,’ Par., 1869, 37 (bis account relates to Segu-Sicorro on the right bank of the Niger, in lat. i3°32' N.). 3 ‘Arch de mod. nav.,’ 1868, Mars, 181. 4 Grenet, ‘ Souvenirs med. de quatre auuees a Mayotte,’ Montp., 1866. 5 Borchgrevink, ‘Norsk Magaz. for Laegevidensk.,’ 1872, 234. 6 Guiol, ‘ Arch, de med. nav.,’ 1822, Nov., 329. < Allan, ‘ Edinb. Monthly Jouru. of Med.,’ 1821, Aug., 560. 8 Dutroulau, ‘Traite des malad. des Europeens dans les pays chands,’ Par., 1861,51. 9 Couzier, ‘ Journ. de med.,’ vii, 406 ; Lesson,' Voyage med. autour du monde, 143 : “ Peu de contrees ofErent un aussi grand nombre de phthisies pulmonaires et de catarrhes chroniques que l’ile de Maurice.” 10 Lostalot-Baclioue, ‘ Etude Sur la constitution pliys. ct med. de l’ilc de Zan- zibar,’ Par., 1876,45. 11 Livingstone, ‘ Travels,’ &c. (abstract in ‘ Dtsch. Klinik.,’ 1S58, Nr. 42.) 12 Schwarz, ‘ Zeitschr. der Wien. Aerzte,’ 1858, 152; Egan, ‘ Med. Times and Gaz.,’ 1877, Aug., 112. 13 See Boyle, ‘Med.-Chir. Account of the Western Coast of Africa,’ Lond., 1831* 396 ; Daniel], ‘ Sketches of the Med. Topogr. of the Gulf of Guinea,’ Loud., 1849, 53, 94, 138, 180; also Moriarty, ‘ Med. Times and Gaz.,’ 1866, Deck, 663 (Gold Coast); Abelin, ‘ Etude sur le Gabuu,’ Par., 1872, 31, and Bestion, ‘Arch, de med. nav.,’ 1881, Nov., 378 (Gaboon); Morcira, ‘ Jornal das. sc. med. de Lisboa,' xv, 121 ; and McRitchic, ‘ Ediub. Monthly Jouru. of Med., 1852, Alai, 405 (Benguela).