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in the epigastrium, which was relieved by eight leeches, after which he 

 required no medicine except the chalybeate water. The bowels 

 became natural, the dropsy completely disappeared, and he regained 

 strength and flesh, and continued free from complaint. He was 

 florid and muscular, in October 1844, when he told me, that he attri- 

 buted his recovery to the chalybeate water, which he still used 

 regularly. He returned to the plains in December " recovered." 



Rheumatism. — Under this head many diseases are sent 

 from the plains, differing widely in their causes, complica- 

 tions, and treatment. The climate of Landour is generally 

 unfavourable to these diseases, particularly in old men, and 

 where abdominal disease co-exists, or when the cause was 

 mercurial or venereal. These cases derived great benefit 

 from using the sulphuretted baths, in the warmer climate at 

 the springs. The internal use of the Harrowgate water was 

 beneficial in these cases. The climate was more favourable to 

 recovery from incomplicated cases of articular and muscular 

 rheumatism ; and in some cases where it formed a sequela of 

 miasmatic fever. The following is an interesting case of 

 this nature, in which the chalybeate water proved effica- 

 cious, after the change of climate, and the usual remedies 

 had failed. 



Case 5th. — Private John Ryan, H. M's. 3rd Buffs, aged twenty- 

 three years : suffered much in 1841 at Kurnaul, from remittent 

 fever ; and in 1842 at Landour, he had repeated attacks of ague and 

 rheumatism. When I received charge in October 1842, he was a 

 bedridden skeleton, with large, stiff, painful joints, and oedema of 

 the feet, with great enlargement of the liver and spleen. The usual 

 remedies had been employed during the preceding six months, by 

 Surgeon T. E. Dempster, and various remedies were used by me 

 till the 18th December, without any improvement except a dimi- 

 nution in the size of the liver. The chalybeate water was then 

 given. The local applications were continued with occasional doses 

 of medicine. The pain gradually diminished ; the swelling and 



