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inspection of them before they left the island, of a total of 

 seven hundred, including sepoys, their wives, and tlie 

 ptiblic and private followers of the corps, I fovnid only four . 

 sick, and these I believe were all catarrhs. 



" Dr. Henderson, with the pest-establishment, and al! 

 those \\ 1)0171 we had left at Suez, arrived at Butciier's Island 

 on the 1st Scjjteuiber. llie convalescents from the plague, 

 as well as the guard, and the pest-house servants, were, on 

 their arrival, al! of them verv healthv : but I thought it safe 

 to keep thcni in quarantine on the island till October; when, 

 like all the others who had l^een in quarantine, they were 

 provided with new ciolhino; an<i sent over to Bombay. 



" The company's packets from Tiassorah, and the vessels 

 which arrived from the Persian Gulf, had none of them the 

 least suspicions appearance, and I iound that their crews 

 were all verv healthy. 



*' I had likewise the satisfaction to receive accounts from 

 the nredical gentlemen employed in the expedition, after 

 their arrival at Calcutta. Madras, and Ceylon: their ac- 

 counts were so late as November. Jn none of the corps did 

 any death occur from the time of embarkation at Suez." 



\n part second, the author gives some observations on the 

 climate of Egypi, as connected with tUc diseases which prc- 

 \'ail in that country. 



*' The cultivated part of Es'vpt, particularly the Delta, is 

 a very rich coimtrv ; in fertility and luxuriance of soil vield- 

 ing to none under the face of heaven. The art of husbandry 

 is there but imperfectlv known ; and at their harvests there 

 is a very great destruction of vegetable matter, from which 

 hvdrogene gas, or hydro-carbonate, is extricated in great 

 quantities. Under similar circumstances, in America as 

 \veil as in India, I have seen a bad fever of the intermittent 

 or remittent type appear. But in Egvpt after the subsiding 

 of the Nile., which in many places had covered a great ex- 

 tent of country, there is a great exhalation from the nmd, 

 and from the putrid aniiTial and vegetable matters left be- 

 hind. The effluvia of these substances, actinir on the human 

 bodvjwill readily accountforn)uch disease. If we add to these 

 the extrenic filth of the inhabitants of Esvpt, their pooi diet, 

 iheir narrnv/, close, and ill-venlilatcd apartments, generally 

 much crowded, with the extreme narrowness of their streets, 

 and the bad police of their towns, v.-e shall not be astonished 

 if a lever, at first intermittent or remittent, should have 

 symptoms denominated malignant, superadded to the more 

 ofdinarv symptoms of the disease. If an imported conta- 

 gion should uMike its appearance at the same time, and 



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