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Victoria, Hengkeng
25th August, 10420
I do hereby certify that the Honorable P. P. Sterling, Her Majesty' s Allerney General of Hongkong, has been under my
medical care, since his arrival
in July 1844. _ During the first eighteen months of his residence here, he enjorted good health; however for the last six or seven, he has had a general breaking up of the constitution : his appetite became. impaired, he has been subject to sovere bilious attacks, had constant drowsings, with heaviness and dulness in the head, dimness of the sight; he could not bear bodily exertion, and at last his eyes es hibited all the symptoms of Amauross. After consulting with another medical
man