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The persons admitted into the Civil Hospital there are chiefly policemen, but also included are officers of the Supreme Court, the Jail, and the servants of Harbour Master, besides cases of destitution found by the police, and persons wounded in affrays.
Amongst the diseases, fevers of various types, and of these the remittent is the chief, and dysentery are numerous. In every instance, the malignant fever which has appeared in this Colony has been described to be of the remittent form, and certainly it is the prevailing disorder. During the last year it was mild in its character, of short duration, and very amenable to treatment.
Dysentery presents a peculiar aspect in this climate, and is very different from the disease described generally by Eastern medical writers. It is certainly engendered in many instances by malaria. It is the most intractable disease in China of all; it will not bear the antiphlogistic and mercurial system of treatment pursued in India. It is most insidious in its progress, giving rise to no prominent or distressing symptom, except the frequent tenesmus. Digestion, sleep, and mental vigour are in most cases unimpaired, while the disease advances, consuming the body and strength treacherously and imperceptibly. Abscess of the liver, or sphacelus of the intestines are its last, almost unperceived, and fatal symptoms.
In Her Majesty's Navy stationed here, the disease has not been so common as usual, yet it evinced greater intensity than it ordinarily assumes in Hongkong. My friend Dr. Harland, in his writing to me on the subject of dysentery, as observed in the merchant seaman's hospital, speaks of it as follows. It has been very...
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Court, the Jail, and the servants of Harbour Master, besides cases of destitution found by the police, and persons wounded
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