Medical sketches of the expedition to China / by Alexander Grant.

  • Grant, Alexander, 1947-
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[1845]
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Credit: Medical sketches of the expedition to China / by Alexander Grant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL SKETCHES OF THE EXPEDITION TO CHINA, BY ALEX.\NDER GRANT, B. M. S. [pTom the India Journal of Medical and Physical Science.'i My dear Sir, I beg to send you the first of a series of papers which are intended to give a brief sketch of the Medical affairs of the Expedition to China. ■ The desire which I have heard so many of my professional friends ex- press, to know something of the pre- vailing sickness and its fluctuating causes, and the hope that an inquiry into these subjects might not be without some small benefit to science and to humanity, form my only apology for intruding myself on the public notice. My position, doing duty with Queen’s Troops in China, rarely en- titled me to make reports to the Board ; I may, however, be permitted to state that the papers I purpose placing at your disjiosal are not the vague recollections of a period of active service, but are taken from an ample collection of almost daily re- corded facts. The topographical notes were drawn up on the spot, and the cases are duplicates of those which it v.as my duty to enter in the Hospital records. 1) my friend. Dr. Shanks, the cx- ^ celleu. Surgeon of II. M.’s .5.5tli Re^ui'iit, I am under professional obligatuis, which if judged of by their peiianent advantages arc alto- gether invaluable. For three years that I was associated with him as a colleague I enjoyed in common with several officers of this establishment, the highest professional opportunities, through his admirable system of con- ducting the heavy medical duties of the corps, and it is with the greatest pleasure that I avail myself of this public opportunity of tendering him my grateful acknowledgments. I am, &c. &c. Alexander Grant. Bhaugulpore, \bth March, ISd.*!. I wished to present these sketches in a more cumulative shape than the limits of your monthly issue will per- mit : I shall endeavour, however, to make each paper as complete in itself as possible, and the following is the general division I intend to adojit: First series. The active operations of the Expe- dition with Topographical notices of the several stations occupied by the Troops, and a review of the causes which have influenced their health in the field and in garrison. Seegnd series. A Topographical sketch of the island of IIong-Kong, its Medical history and that of Chusan, and Kulougsoo, during the last three years of their occupation.