Official report on the medical topography and climate of Calcutta : with brief notices of its prevalent diseases, endemic and epidemic / by James Ranald Martin.

Date:
1839
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Credit: Official report on the medical topography and climate of Calcutta : with brief notices of its prevalent diseases, endemic and epidemic / by James Ranald Martin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    elucidated by an examination of the records of an institution in which, during the seventy years of its existence, various plans of treatment had been followed with tens of thousands of European patients. My plan, I regret to say, did not obtain the sanction of medical authority ; and so this important matter remains, for the present at least, in abeyance. Of the Report itself, I shall only say that it is got up with more care than that printed by the authority of Government in 1837, and contains a third, or more, of additional matter. The former “ Notes” were put together in a few weeks ; and, for the re-construction of the present Report, I may truly say that I have had but little leisure. Such as it is, however, I have no hesitation in submit- ting it to the Government; for were it of less value even than I believe it is, still its publication will prove useful, if only by giving to others such benefit as may be derivable from my example. There are two points which I have endeavoured to keep continually in mind—namely, the investigation of climate in its most extended sense; and secondly, its influence on military health ; for it should never be forgotten here, however we may be circumstanced, that it is mainly for the care of the troops that medical officers are sent to India.