PATHOLOGIA INDICA,

OR THE

ANATOMY OF INDIAN DISEASES,

BASED UPON

MORBID SPECIMENS, FROM ALL PARTS OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE, IN
THE MUSEUM OF THE CALCUTTA MEDICAL COLLEGE;

ILLUSTRATED BY DETAILED CASES;

WITH

The Prescriptions and Treatment Employed,

AND

COMMENTS, PHYSIOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL.

BY

ALLAN WEBB, B. M. S.

PROFESSOR OF DESCRIPTIVE AND SURGICAL ANATOMY IN THE CALCUTTA
MEDICAL COLLEGE; FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF MILITARY SURGERY;
SURGEON TO LA MARTINIERE.

SECOND EDITION.

IN TWO PARTS..

"Vere scire est per causas scire,"

LORD BACON.

LONDON:

WM. H. ALLEN & CO., 7, LEADENHALL STREET.

1848.

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THE RIGHT REVEREND DANIEL WILSON,

Lord Bishop of Calcutta,

AND

METROPOLITAN OF INDIA.

MY LORD,

Admiration of your character, and gratitude for personal benefits, the memory of which will never be effaced from my mind, are the motives which prompted my seeking the permission, which has been so kindly granted, to dedicate this volume to your Lordship.

For seven years a companion of your journeyings in every part of this vast Empire, I have enjoyed innumerable opportunities of witnessing the deep interest with which your Lordship regards any measure, connected more immediately or not with your own high and sacred duties, which has the good of India and her millions of inhabitants for its object.

It therefore gives me the highest gratification to be permitted to connect your Lordship's name with a Work, the leading design of which is the Alleviation of Human Suffering among our fellow-creatures in this country.

Should I succeed in my object, none will rejoice more than your Lordship; should I fail, none will appreciate with more indulgence the good intentions of the author.

With the highest respect and esteem,

CONTENTS.

Preface to the Second Edition.

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The Museum a central depôt for Pathological contributions from

every part of the Indian Empire,

Facts accumulated fix the Pathology of India,..

young Medical Officers upon their arrival. . . aim of the work,. . . .

facts must be made known.... useful to statistical Medical Science

....

may be seen by all

a record of practice of our army surgeons,.. supplying the

want of books, ..

Out of Calcutta, no Medical Library,.

Preface to the First Edition.

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PLAN OF THE MUSEUM,-1st. To illustrate Human Descriptive and

Structural Anatomy; 2nd, Morbid or Pathological Anatomy; 3nd,

Surgical Anatomy, and 4th, Comparative Anatomy.

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The principle beneficial.... students taught to regard each day's

work as permanent.... hope for a place in the museum,

Circular from the Medical Board, to the Superintending Surgeons of

Divisions,...

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Council of Education, to J. Forsyth, Esq. Officiating Secretary to the

Medical Board,.

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DIVISION.

PART I.

THE PATHOLOGY OF THE BLOOD; THE PATHOLOGY OF THE

BLOOD-VESSELS; THE PATHOLOGY OF THE HEART; THE PATHO-

LOGY OF THE AIR-TUBES AND LUNGS.

PART II.

PATHOLOGY OF LIVER AND BILIARY APPARATUS; PATHOLOGY

of the SPLEEN; PATHOLOgy of KidneyS AND URINARY AP-

PARATUS; PATHOLOGY OF GENERATION,..

Introduction.

PATHOLOGY OF THE BLOOD.

Science or knowledge of disease,.. .. Pathology,.... Morbid Anatomy
.... foundation of the science,. . . . connection between change of
form, and change of action,.... fluids full of organized forms,.. the
blood is a true organism,. . . . lives and moves,... whatever inter-
rupts it is disease; whatever stops it, is death,.... in diseases of
India, morbid anatomy, of solids would not explain,
Altered condition of the blood is common to all,..
terminates in the Tropics,.... death of the blood corpuscles,....

most rapidly life

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