140 ciassification of diseases. 



Section 4 — Classification of Diseases. 

 I propose to divide this subject into three heads : 



1st Class. 



Diseases in which I conceive the patient may, with safety 

 and advantage, be transferred at once to the hill climate, in- 

 cluding those which would be benefited by a previous re. 

 sidence at Kotergherry, and Coonoor. 



1. Incipient disease, of every description. 



2. Fever, if unaccompanied with severe affection of the 

 viscera. 



3. Diarrhoea. 



4. General debility, if not dependant on organic disease, 

 or great functional derangement. 



5. All local affections, of whatever description. 



6. The milder forms of chronic dysentery ; acute dy- 

 sentery can seldom, I apprehend, be a proper subject of 

 treatment in this climate. 



7. The milder forms of hepatic disease. 



8. Almost all female complaints, properly so called. 

 9- Muscular rheumatism. 



10. Mercurial rheumatism, or periostitis. 



11. Incipient pulmonaiy disease. 



12. Dyspepsia, and its concomitants. 



13. Neuralgia (pains depending on an affection of the 

 nerves). 



2nd Class. 



Diseases which are likely to benefit by a residence on the 

 hills, provided the patient has it in his power to premise a 

 sea-voyage, or, in the milder cases, a residence of some 

 months on the coast, so as to remove, or at least entirely 



