32 On the Mineral Waters near Landour. 



Remarks. — The only medicines used in this case from the 

 1st May 1843 to the 1st October 1844, besides the chalybeate 

 water, were four or five doses of castor oil, and four alterative 

 pills, he was very exemplary in his diet, and when he felt un- 

 comfortable, he starved. The bleeding from the piles is in- 

 convenient, but salutary. He now (1st October) eats, drinks, 

 and sleeps well, and is nearly as muscular as ever he was. 



I have learned, since leaving the hills, that from the in- 

 spection of one day's evacuation, in which he passed two 

 formed stools with some detached blood and mucus, he was 

 declared to be still labouring under chronic Cabool dysentery. 

 If the chalybeate water merely saved this officer's life, and 

 restored him to the usual enjoyments of health, it would not 

 be valueless. It restored the following case to duty. 



Case 4th. — Private Edward Skinner, H. M's. 31st Foot, aged 

 twenty-four years ; suffered severely from dysentery during the Cabool 

 campaign, and arrived at Landour on the 1st April 1843, labouring 

 under general anasarca, ascites, oppression of breathing, with cough 

 at night. He had twelve whitish, creamy stools during the day ; no 

 local pain. Pulse 112; tongue clean ; skin dry. He got quinine and 

 opium pills, with assafcetida enemata, with an occasional calomel 

 and tartar emetic pill, till the 15th; he had then five or six yellow 

 feculent stools, and the anasarca was considerably diminished. As he 

 had been stationary for some days, twelve ounces of the chalybeate 

 water were given in the morning, and the quinine pills at noon and 

 night. The purging returned on the 22nd ; eight ounces of the 

 chalybeate water, with half a drachm of laudanum were then 

 given morning and evening. On the 27th he had only two consis- 

 tent and feculent stools. On the 28th he got twelve ounces of the 

 chalybeate noon and evening, without the laudanum, after which he 

 required laxatives to keep his bowels free. He used digitalis from 

 the 1st to the 7th of May. His bowels were costive, his strength 

 improved, and the dropsy much diminished on the 2 1 st, when he got 

 one grain of quinine and five drops of nitric acid. This was continu- 

 ed in diminished doses till the 7th June, when he had slight pain 



