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THE CLIMATE OF INDIA. 120
°ne ventures into the sun without parasols of a broad
' and shady form, or in palankeens roofed with tuskas.
■Nevertheless the European constitution is exposed
° the attacks of many diseases. Fevers, dysentery,
"•flections of the liver, cholera morbus, and rheumatism,
j^'e common,; and there are numerous minor disorders,
the effect of climate acting' upon a slight or an ex-
cessively robust system, which few can escape. These
tatter consist of a troublesome cutaneous eruption
called prickly heat, boils, and ulcers. Boils grow to a
l^'g'e size, are excessively painful and disturbing", and
the^ lancet is often necessary to the relief of the
Patient. Constipation is also a common complaint,
deeding exercise and stimulating medicines.
Yet it does not follow that all persons should be
^sailed by the diseases of India. Very many in-
<hviduals go through life in all parts of the empire,
^vith perhaps only a single attack of one or two of the
Sweater complaints—and not a few will pass thirty
years in India unscathed. The writer of these pages
^Vfls singularly favoured. During a residence of
twenty-one years—one half the time at Bombay, and
."e other half at Calcutta—he never had a single day's
"bless.
And if sickness should overtake the dwellers in any
°ne of the Presidencies, baffling the skill of the practi-
tioner, great facilities exist for resorting to the sana-
tory hills in the vicinity of each town. The resident of
Calcutta can find relief by proceeding to the Barjeling
fountain—one of the Sinchul range—where he finds
^climate as temperate as that of his own native land,
r-he place is reached by very easy stages in three or
our days, and from the burning plain the invalid finds
himself transported 7,200 feet above the level of the
sea in a temperature of 55°. From Madras the Neil-
gherry hills are reached with ease in a week, and at
^otacumand, the principal station, or settlement, the
°ne ventures into the sun without parasols of a broad
' and shady form, or in palankeens roofed with tuskas.
■Nevertheless the European constitution is exposed
° the attacks of many diseases. Fevers, dysentery,
"•flections of the liver, cholera morbus, and rheumatism,
j^'e common,; and there are numerous minor disorders,
the effect of climate acting' upon a slight or an ex-
cessively robust system, which few can escape. These
tatter consist of a troublesome cutaneous eruption
called prickly heat, boils, and ulcers. Boils grow to a
l^'g'e size, are excessively painful and disturbing", and
the^ lancet is often necessary to the relief of the
Patient. Constipation is also a common complaint,
deeding exercise and stimulating medicines.
Yet it does not follow that all persons should be
^sailed by the diseases of India. Very many in-
<hviduals go through life in all parts of the empire,
^vith perhaps only a single attack of one or two of the
Sweater complaints—and not a few will pass thirty
years in India unscathed. The writer of these pages
^Vfls singularly favoured. During a residence of
twenty-one years—one half the time at Bombay, and
."e other half at Calcutta—he never had a single day's
"bless.
And if sickness should overtake the dwellers in any
°ne of the Presidencies, baffling the skill of the practi-
tioner, great facilities exist for resorting to the sana-
tory hills in the vicinity of each town. The resident of
Calcutta can find relief by proceeding to the Barjeling
fountain—one of the Sinchul range—where he finds
^climate as temperate as that of his own native land,
r-he place is reached by very easy stages in three or
our days, and from the burning plain the invalid finds
himself transported 7,200 feet above the level of the
sea in a temperature of 55°. From Madras the Neil-
gherry hills are reached with ease in a week, and at
^otacumand, the principal station, or settlement, the