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Sect. XIV.] MEDICINE AND MEDICAL STATISTICS 





se wounds are 



astonish our boldest practitioner. How th- 



cured mirrht be worth knownig, as the scars sufficiently 



attest the excoUence of the surgery. 



In the central parts of Africa, and in some of the 

 islands of the Indian Archipelago^ there is reason to 

 believe that the natives are in possession of narcotic 



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account of these, and of their modes of preparing them 

 would be hiteresting. And on all occasions the diseases 

 most prevalent in the various foreign countries visited, 

 and the most approved methods of treating them, together 

 with an account of the medicinal plants, and other means 

 in general use as remedies, should in conformity with the 

 public instructions bo invariably reported. 



In preserving medical plants or seeds, or, in fact, any 



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other object of natural history, for the purpose of bnBging 

 them to thi;i country, it will be found no easy matter to 

 protect them from the ravages of insects, and in damp 

 countries from the effects of mildew. The tin cases now- 

 used for certain articles of dress are w^ell adapted for the 

 safe keeping of vegetable or animal substances ; but wdien 

 they cannot be procured, a tolerably large deal box, of 

 a form such as will fit snudy between the beams of the 

 small cabins allotted to gun-room officers, its seams 

 being closed up by pasting paper inside, is the best 

 substitute. From these all insects may be completely 

 eicluded by placing loosely in them, scattered amongst 





the contents, several pieces of camphor, and rags 

 sprinkled with turperthie : the latter will requii'e to be 



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