The prevention of disease in tropical and sub-tropical campaigns / by Andrew Duncan.

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1956-
Date:
1888
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    nection with the Hurdwar fairs of 1867 and 1879, contained in the Reports for those years of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India. Both these epidemics are stated to have arisen under nearly precisely the same circumstances, yet in 1867 human intercourse was declared to have been indicated, whilst in 1879, the theory of climate and other causes was substituted. But the Report of 1867 is as convincing- as that of 1879 is not. The great physician, in whose honour the memorial essay has been instituted, forcibly criticized the climatic theory regarding the epidemic of 1872, and exposed its fallacies. The extreme development of the climatic theory would seem fco have been reached in connection with the late epidemic in Egypt, wherein it was urged that cholera nostras and cholera Asiatics are identical. The principles of prevention of disease in tropical campaigns laid down in the following pages, are such as should be followed wherever the circumstances of any campaign permit of their adop- tion. It is, of course, not to be expected that such permission will in all cases be possible. But by keeping in view such measures of prevention as would be adopted, where such adoption is pos- sible, much may be attained. I have to thank the Committee of the Memorial Fund for permission to publish this volume. The original matter has been revised throughout. In conclusion it may be remarked that of late years the various writings of certain authorities on sanitary science have been collected and republished to great advantage. The summaries of the late Professor Parkes on Public Health, published in the A.M.D. Reports, are unrivalled as regards the reasoning employed and literary diction. But inasmuch as papers embodied in Reports are generally consigned thereby to comparative oblivion, the republication of the writings of Professor Parkes, contained in the A.M.D. Reports, would be a work of vast benefit. A. D.