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eases, particularly when there is great debility. Only a few 

 of the men who remained during last cold season were such as 

 would likely benefit from the sulphuretted baths. The result, 

 in some, was most gratifying. Several men who were suffering 

 from the extreme cold at Landour were sent down for change 

 of air. The venereal and rheumatic cases that arrived in 

 April, 1844, were sent down, and were benefitting very satis- 

 factorily ; when it rained, in the beginning of June, and I was 

 obliged to bring them up, as the hut leaked. The residence 

 was too short to remove completely or permanently, consti- 

 tutional diseases of several years duration. I intended sending 

 them down again after the rains ; but my tour of duty at the 

 depot expired, and the investigation has not been follow- 

 ed up. 



The marked advantage in some of the cases (see Rourk 

 No. 6,) from the use of the sulphuretted baths, together 

 with their acknowledged efficacy in Europe, in syphilitic, 

 rheumatic, hepatic, cutaneous, and dyspeptic diseases, ren- 

 der it probable that much advantage would be derived from 

 the construction of a small hospital near the springs. It 

 would prove peculiarly valuable in the vicinity of Landour, 

 as independently of the cases that would benefit from the 

 use of the baths, the pulmonary, rheumatic, extremely debi- 

 litated, or old Indian cases, would benefit by a change of 

 climate during the cold season. At all seasons, there are 

 certain stages of many diseases, in which a change of air 

 proves most sanatory. Such an hospital would be advantage- 

 ous to the extremely debilitated, on arriving at the hills, as 

 the mortality amongst these is very great within a few days 

 of their arrival. The breeze that fans the dull fire, quenches 

 the flickering lamp. 



On the arrival of the convalescents at the depot, the 

 effects of the change of climate from the plains were watch- 

 ed, and recorded weekly. When the improvement was satis- 

 factory, no medicine was given : when the disease or debility 



