The Archive · 1910

DYSENTERY.'

WISE WORDS BY A PHYSICIAN

Among the—perni diseases incidental to life in the tropics dyea.tery takes an important place, The reasons for thie are maw and varied. It is, however, unnecessary tu enumerate them every In reply to the Court Mr. Mossop ssid that he could not pay the whole amount of the claim into Court. Defendant had handed him $1,500 and said that he would not go further than that unless the ' curt ordered him to His Lordship said that he thought defendant must pay as he did not ai pear. He would adjourn the case for one week'io order to give Mr. Mossop an opportunity of getting the fall Mr. Mossop pointed out that defendant was on his way howe.

His Lordship—Has he no friends here?

Mr. ucheronsset—Yee, Mr. Y. C, Tong his partner.

His Lordship said that the case would be adjourned for a week for Mr. Mossop to find the fall amount of the claim snd thea if Mr. Mossop appeared in Court and ssid that he was prepared to pay the $1,978 into Court his Lordship would adjourn the case until Juve, but otherwise the case must go on. prominently in mind is how to avoid this dread complaint in the first place, and, in the next, how to take steps to core it sbvald he be nfortnaate enough to contract it, Speaking broadly, no tropical disease is more pest than dysentery, for it on:

mines the health, depresses the system, reduces' the tone and the whole body, di energy, and, generally ioterferes with the indisidurl's physical power of resistance against disease, The result is that, unlike what happens in meet other diseases, one attack does not act asa preventive, bat rather pediepores to another, thus rendering the weakened system liable to still farther inroads, until the condition of the eafforer is deplorable indeed, for he may be attacked by many after-effects, like abeees of the liver, dropsy, scurvy, and nervous affections of various sorts.

Bad o¢ all this is, the patient's case Shanghai, Febroary 17. climates, that the digestive system is Before Sin Havittayp pr Savsmanez, therefore depressed as well as. the 60 that he not only starts ywed in favour of the ftNo BRLOIAN BANK P, DALLAS HORSE iso heavily handicapped

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