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check, the complaint. The duration, or nature of the voy- 

 age must of course depend on the nature of the complaint, 

 and other circumstances, to be determined by the judgment 

 of the medical practitioner advising the change. To persons 

 coming down from Bengal, or the more distant parts of the 

 Bombay presidency, the short voyage along the coast will 

 always be of service, often all that is necessary. In other 

 and more serious cases, it must be prolonged for two or 

 three months. Still the advantage of coming to the hills, in- 

 stead of the long and expensive voyage to and from the 

 Cape or Europe, the circumstance of being within reach of 

 one's own office, or business, of whatever description, and 

 many others, are so evident as to require no discussion. 



1. Hepatic disease, not amounting to organic affection. 



2. Dysentery of the severer descriptions, with the same 

 qualifications. 



3. Severe mercurial rheumatism, if attended with enlarge- 

 ment of the bones. 



4. Chronic enlargement of the viscera, (or Parabysma, as 

 it is termed technically.) 



5. Debility, the consequence of long residence in the 

 country, and complicated with functional derangement of 

 the liver, or any other important organ. The sea-voyage in 

 this, and the first two divisions, should be of considerable 

 duration. 



3ed Class. 



In the first class, or diseases not likely to benefit by this 

 climate, under any circumstances — I would include, 



1. Hepatic disease, if organic or complicated with a scro- 

 fulous taint in the constitution ; at least if the latter has 

 declared itself, 



2. Dysentery, mider the same circumstances. 



