On the new theories and experiences of scurvy : read before the Bombay Medical and Physical Society, with additions from the author's contributions to the Lancet &c. / by Cameron Macdowall.

  • Macdowall, Cameron Joseph Francis Stuart, 1832-
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[1884?]
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Credit: On the new theories and experiences of scurvy : read before the Bombay Medical and Physical Society, with additions from the author's contributions to the Lancet &c. / by Cameron Macdowall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE NEW THEORIES AND EXPfiRIEJ^GES OF SCURVY. V' ^^^^ Read before the Bombay Medical and Physioal Soci With additiomfrom the author's contfibutions to the Lancet &c. By Brigade Surgeon Cameron MACDQWALL. /' H. M's Bombay Army./M1J^C„ 5* Zco-^ ^ ^ I WOULD not think of troubling the Medical world on what we are apt to consider a worn-out topic, but that I think it my duty to do what in me lies towards modifying some current im- pressions about scurvy in Afghanistan (or Beloochistan), which seem lately to have gained implicit and unlimited credence. One impression, then, is that the natives of these regions escape scurvy,* because they live almost entirely on fresh meat. On arrival here I immediately began to investigate the grounds for such a sweeping assertion. Now, from the highest down- wards, I have consulted most of the civil authorities here, men who have been long intimately acquainted with the people and the country. Of course, also, I consulted the inhabitants them- selves when I could ( specially on the line of march), either through interpreters or by means of their broken Hindostanee. By one and all I am assured that milk and unleavened wheaten (and other grain) bread are the staples of their diet^ as it is indeed of most pastoral peoples. Being also a nomadic people, at least a liill tribe (although the *' Patham settle in the valleys), they roam with their flocks over the hills and back again, cultivating some of the valleys in the proper seasons, and in patches sufficient for their wants. * But indeed they do nothing of the kind. Since this paper was wiitten I have acted in charge of the Civil Hospital at Quetta and seen cases of scurvy among the Afghans from far and near. Dr. Fullerton showed me the back Hegiaters of this Hospital, Scurvy was a common entry^ <Z.o-**^. iU^^-^-tA^yiZIZ fL<-<M. iv^A^ ^i.^^^..^ (^ILiL^,^