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surgical treatment, and who have been able in an emergency to give the 
necessary drugs, administer an antidote, or to stop severe bleeding. 
The ideal traveller is a temperate man, with a sound constitution, a 
digestion like an ostrich, a good temper and no race prejudices. He is 
capable of looking after details, e.g ., seeing that drinking water has really 
been boiled, and is willing to take advice from those who have made 
journeys in countries similar to the one in which he is about to travel. 
A traveller should be supplied with suitable housing, food and 
clothing, and should have a proper supply of medicines, dressings, and 
medical comforts. 
In recommending the drugs with which the traveller should be pro¬ 
vided before leaving home, I have chosen chiefly the tabloid preparations 
of the firm of Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., as after a considerable 
experience of tropical travel and exposure, which form the severest test 
of the reliability of medicines, I have found, like Parke, that they are 
the best in the matter of constancy and unchangeability of strength, and 
they have the great advantage of being extremely portable. 
General Directions for the Preservation of Health and the 
Prevention of Disease. 
The traveller should endeavour to land in a perfectly healthy condition, 
and to this end he should on the voyage out take plenty of exercise, 
drink little or no alcohol, be moderate as to diet and avoid much meat 
and rich dishes. Neglect of these obvious rules frequently ends in the 
traveller arriving in a flabby, bilious condition, in which state he is 
predisposed to attacks of malaria, dysentery and other diseases. It is 
better to drink only mineral waters, as filters on board ship are often 
defective. 
Constipation is frequent at sea, and a seidlitz powder, a dose of fruit 
salt, or one or two cascara tabloids may be necessary. If constipation is 
severe, then one or two four-grain blue pills should be taken at bed-time, 
followed in the early morning by a seidlitz powder or some other saline 
aperient. 
In order to avoid chill the traveller should be properly clothed during 
the evening or when there is a cool breeze, and should not stand in 
draughty doorways and passages on board. 
