A paper on the prevention and treatment of the disorders of the seamen and soldiers in Bengal : presented to the Honourable Court of East-India Directors, in the year 1791 / by John Peter Wade, M.D.

  • Wade, John Peter, -1802.
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: A paper on the prevention and treatment of the disorders of the seamen and soldiers in Bengal : presented to the Honourable Court of East-India Directors, in the year 1791 / by John Peter Wade, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    haps a flight head-ach, at leaft in warm cli- mates, if he prolong in the morning his im- perfect flumbers in bed for two or three hours beyond the ufual time; but if the fame perfon mould extend this indulgence to the expiration of twenty-four hours, I may venture to afiert, that two days would fcarce- ly prove fufficient to reftore him to the fame fenfe of all his faculties which he pofleffed before, If a mind and perfon the mofl healthy fuffer {o readily by too long indulgence in an horizontal -pofture, is it confident with com- mon fenfe or with reafoning to fuppofe, that a man already under the prefTure of thofe fymptoms, perhaps in their worft ftages, ihould not only not fail to be injurioufly afFecled by it-y but.ihould even derive much benefit from a circumftance which would deprive him of ftrength, if he poffefled it in a healthy degree. There is certainly an abfur- dity in the fuppofition ; but it refts not al- together on fuppofition; for the writer may truly declare that the whole courfe of his ex- perience in Bengal, as well as on board the Houghton, militates ftrongly againft all con- finement to a bed, an horizontal pofture, and even to a room or a lower deck ; moft per- haps in the diforders in which the ability to abandon