The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-11 00:00:00

LITERALLY NOTICE.

LETTERS an the PREVENTION anti CURE of DIS-
EASES peculiar to HOT and COLD CLIMATES, in-
tended for the use of Commanders of Ships, and Persons
about to settle in or visit such Climates, with Remarks on
the use of the Tourniquet, &c.—By JANES BOY LE, Esq.,

Surgeon.
Considering the variety and extent of our Co-
1011i4I Ptissesions, in most parts of the world,
and the nosiber of our countrymen who. are
coestantly Ikpartitig On commercial or other pur-
snits, we do not kuow a more valuable Medical
Fade Mecum to recommend to their attention than
this useful tract. But it is also Well worthy of
the attention of the medical profession, as it is the
obvious production of an intelligent and expe-
rienced Pratlitioner. The work is written in an
easy Unaffected manner, and the diffusion of use-
ful knowledge appears to be the author's chief
view. it consists of twelve letters, each clearly
treating its respective subject ; and altogether
comprising a definition of the symptoms, and pe-
culiarities of those diseases abroad which are
found so constantly alarming, and frequently fa-
'tat to our countrymen.
The firq letter contains some useful inform.
lion on propitplactics and sea sickness ; the second
describes the eeneral feelings of Europeans on
.approaching the tropics, and the symptoms of that
common visitor pi ick4y heal; the third and fourth
letters are of more vital importance,—they de-
line the character of ;fever, and point out the
sarieties usually met with in warm latitudes ; the
filth on cholera morbus, but more .particularly
is on the epidemic Cholera of India, which from its
mysterious nature and recent fatality, requires
serious attention. The author expresses himself
as follows
Every :part II of this extensive country has occasionally,
sacrificed at the shrine of this rapacious intruder —*noun-
valley, jungle or marsh; dry, elevated or low situa-
tions, have all felt its influence, and suffered in turn : nor has
any particular class, character f persons, or cast escaped the
common lot of its ravages. The abstemious liindoo, whose
religions tenets forbid toe use of animal food, and enjoin vege-
tables almost solely tin his support ; the mussithoun, who is
Indulged with the use of flesh, but is denied that of wine, or
:spirits; and Europeans with generally spoSking are not Pytha-
goreans, have b9en indiscriminately attacked by this merciless
tend. (Jur sailors, and our soldiers, but more particularly the
latter, who have been employed in large armies both in llin-
&stun and Ceylon, have suffered in a very remarkable degree,
and have aflbrded a lamentably extensive field for dissension
and observation--sad to say; differences of opinion are not •yet
at an end !
The other letters are each of consequence, but.
letter ninth, which treats of the use of the Tour-
nigiat, and its ,mode of application in stopping
He we consider as the most valuable
to those persons who arc not within'the reach of
immediate medical assistance. A. very neatly
engraved frotitispiece• represents the form and
application 'of' the Tourniquet, and we again
recut:llkley(' the work to professional and general