Plain directions for self-preservation from cholera : containing the best medical advice both for prevention and cure, particulary recommended to heads of families, teachers of academies, &c / remarks on cholera by Henry Marshall.

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[1832]
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    Jh [Price One Penny.] PLAIN DIRECTIONS Self-preservation from Cholera; CONTAINING THE BEST MEDICAL ADVICE BOTH FOR PREVENTION AND CURE. Particularly recommended to Heads of Families, Teachers of Acade?nies, &c, REMARKS ON CHOLERA. By Henry Marshall, Esq. D. I. G.* [The following remarks are from the pen of a gentleman whose experience entitles him to speak with some confidence on the cholera. What he here states, are fads which came under his own observation in the island of Ceylon, and must accordingly be admitted to have more weight than any thing that can be said by writers who merely express their indivi- dual opinions, however favourable the hypothesis may be on which they are founded.] Cholera has always occurred, sporadically, in India, Ceylon, &c. Bontius has described the disease as he saw it in Java. Between the year 1803, when I arrived in Ceylon, and 1819, when it appeared epidemically at Kandy, I had an opportunity of witnessing several cases, all of which terminated fatally. The nature of the disease was indeed not at first duly appre- ciated. I am aware of other medical officers who witnessed eases of a similar nature. The cases I met with were all either Africans or indigenous inhabitants of India, but Dr. Badenach had a commissioned officer under his care who died of the disease in a few hours. Cholera was epidemic in the peninsula of India in 1782 or 1783. This epidemic was described by Mr. Curtis as he saw it at Madras by Fra Paolina da San Bartolomeo, a Carmelite Friar, as it occurred in the neighbourhood of Travancore; by * Mr. Marshall had the superintendence of the medical concerns of the army, in the central provinces of Ceylon, when cholera appeared in that Island. Cy