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The mucous membrane of the Bronchial tubes, perhaps the most common site for bleeding, is a very vascular structure. It may be right to observe that inflammation of the tonsils and fauces, giving rise to spitting of blood, is a common disorder in Hongkong. Great care is requisite in distinguishing this from true haemoptysis.
The Climate of Hongkong does not seem to me to favour the development of tubercles in the Lungs, yet those organs suffer rapid degeneration when disease commences in them, either by consolidation of their tissues, or dilatation of the air-passages, and eventually the formation of cavities.
Rheumatism, established in most cases during the past year, has been urgent in its nature, not unfrequent in its recurrence, and trying on physical rigour. A syphilitic diathesis has been observed.
One case has come under my notice of "Dracunculus" or Guinea worm. I believe it to have been imported from Bombay. When I saw the case, the parasite was projecting from an ulcer in the ankle. The patient, an Indian, suffered both locally and constitutionally. He had subjected himself to a variety of charms and empirical ceremonies. The wound was wrapped round a piece of smooth bamboo, a practice adopted by native surgeons. My unfortunate patient had been taught that if, in the process of winding, the worm should break, his disease, like a chancery suit when a suitor dies, would begin de novo; and this accident, to his great distress, happened to him. My treatment evidently contained too little of the imaginative, so he returned to a more speculative physician. I have no reason to believe that the Guinea worm is common, or even known, in China.
Dr. Harland has presented me with a tabular statement of the cases admitted in 1850 into the Seaman's Hospital. They were in number 203, embracing a great variety...
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The Climate of Hongkong does not seem to me to forour the development of tubercles in the Lungs, yet those organs suffer rapid. degeneration when disease commences in them, either by consolidation of their tissues, on dilatation of the air-passages, and eventually- the formation of musical.
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