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MALARIA: 
ITS CAUSES AND ITS EFFECTS; 
AND 
INJURIES OF THE SPLEEN. 
By E. G. RUSSELL, M.B., B.Sc, Lond., 
Surgeo7i, Bengal Medical Service. 
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 
The Lajtcet. — "In the present volume Dr. Russell discusses most exhaustively 
the subject of malaria and its effects, and the work should be read by all who are 
liable to be called upon to treat the conditions to which it gives rise. The chapter 
which describes the malarial lesions of the stomach and liver will perhaps be read 
with most interest by the English practitioner. Dr. Russell offers a useful hint not 
to mistake severe dyspepsia and gastric irritabihty associated with pale diarrhoea 
arising from too constant and prolonged a residence in malarious regions for hepatic 
disease induced by 'free living' — a caution the more needed since, we fear, all 
dyspeptic troubles occurring in old Indians are apt to be regarded as due ' to liver ' 
provoked by unhmited brandy pawnee, hot curries, and tropical suns. Dr. Russell 
ably discusses the relationship between ague and typhoid — a question that has been 
raised by Sir Joseph Fayrer. . . . The second part of the volume is devoted 
to an analysis of fifty cases of injury of the spleen. These injuries, from the fre- 
quency of their occurrence, and the importance of their medico-legal bearings, are 
of pecuhar interest to the medical practitioner in India, but their consideration need 
not detain us at present. We therefore leave Dr. Russell's volume, commending it 
to the notice of our readers as a book full of facts and of clinical research, and 
which must be considered as an authority on the subject of malaria." 
The Medical Press and Circular. — ",The appearance of this work is opportune 
at this time, when the subject of fevers in relation to chmate in India is obtaining 
special attention. The author, from his position as civil surgeon of Kamrup in 
Assam, had ample opportunities of practically studying his subject, for the district 
of which that station is the centre is noted for its malarious character, and for the 
prevalence of malarial disease, including ' fever and its sequelae, dysentery, diarrhoea, 
and cholera.' But besides the results of his personal observations, he summarises 
the views of recognised authorities on his subject, and thus presents to his readers 
a convenient epitome of previous investigations. His work is of considerable 
merit, and deserves to be extensively read." 
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