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at the consequences of failure, he insisted on His Majesty 

 taking a course of tonics. The decoction was prepared, but 

 the king found it so bitter that he emptied the cup into the 

 royal spittoon, suggesting that the doctor should employ the 

 more agreeable article of arrack for the conveying of the 

 nauseous potion. Doctor Danielsz hereupon brewed two 

 bottles of bitters, but he prescribed so small a dose of it at a 

 time (he calls it a small beer-glass full) that His Majesty 

 demanded either a double dose or to be allowed extra liquor 

 over the bitters ; after a good deal of resistance the doctor was 

 at last compelled to yield, and as he said he was himself in the 

 habit of taking a schnap before meals, his patient also 

 might, but positively not beyond the third day. In the 

 meantime the leg was not improving, and the regimen was 

 becoming intolerable, and so Doctor Danielsz was bid 

 prepare to leave Kandy ; and, if he could not congratulate 

 himself on his professional success, we may yet suppose he 

 was glad enough to escape the attentions of his patient, 

 which now began to assume a form slightly more imperative 

 than was altogether pleasant. So Doctor Danielsz and his 

 apprentice returned to Colombo, and continued no doubt to 

 adorn the profession till the natural close of his not unevent- 

 ful life." 



British Period. 



Mr. Henry Marshall, Surgeon to the Forces, who served 

 here from 1808 to 1821, has left us a valuable work on the 

 " Medical Topography of Ceylon, and on the Health of the 

 Troops employed in the Kandyan Provinces from 1815 to 

 1820, with brief remarks on the prevailing Diseases." 

 From this work I have gathered some interesting passages. 

 The troops employed during the early British occupation 

 consisted of Europeans, Camrs, Malays, and natives of India. 

 Marshall says that the individuals of each class preserve a 

 strong physical and moral resemblance, using the same food, 

 having similar wants, undergoing the same labour, and 

 suffering the same privations. Each class had particular 



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