ON INDIAN DISEASES, IN DETAIL. 137 



wet are serious and insuperable obstacles, and they suffer so 

 mucb discomfort in tbis way, as nearly to neutralize any 

 benefit tbeir health may derive. 



Habitual constipation, in the low country a very obstinate 

 complaint, yields at once on the hills. The additional quan- 

 tity of fluid thrown into the bowels assists this effect at first, 

 and the restored tone of the stomach, bowels, and digestive 

 powers in general completes the cure. 



Local, and cutaneous diseases, of every description, sores, 

 ulcers, affections of the joints, fractures, injuries of the head, 

 and all other affections of this class, yield to appropriate re- 

 medies with, at least, as great facility, as under the most 

 favorable circumstances in Europe ; convalescence being in 

 all of them incredibly rapid and perfect. 



Pulmonary disease, being of comparatively rare occurrence 

 in India generally, is not often the subject of treatment here ; 

 where it has occurred in its earlier stages (the only circum- 

 stances under which it is manageable in any part of the 

 world), it has presented no difl&culty whatever. 



The host of diseases peculiar to females, acknowledge the 

 influence of our climate in a remarkable degree ; they are 

 often extremely obstinate, and are very generally rendered 

 more so by the impatience of restraint, and unpardonable im- 

 prudence of the sufferers themselves, but nevertheless, almost 

 always, yield to time, and the gradual effects of the climate. 



Diarrhoea, though requiring much care on the part of the 

 medical attendant, and much self-denial on the part of the 

 patient, from the liability to relapses consequent upon atmo- 

 spherical changes, and slight errors in diet, has not in a sin- 

 gle instance resisted the effects of judicious treatment ; it is, 

 however, a most obstinate disease, and in common with the 

 next to be noticed requires a long freedom from attacks ; in 



