PHYSICIAN TO THE COUNCIL OF INDIA. OF all the causes which tend to the production of hepatic diseases in the East Indies, peculiar climatic influences, acting on race, are the greatest=climatic influences which do not exist, or which exist in a very minor degree, in other hot countries. That the prevalence of malarious fevers and dysenteries, the absence of wholesome exercises, the confinement in overcrowded and ill-ventilated barracks, along with the abuse of animal food and alcoholic drinks, the undue exposure to heat, cold, damp, and other external causes, give a fearfully additional power and prevalence to attacks of those diseases in India, cannot be denied. But in estimating the extent of such influences in the East, as compared with other warm climates, it must be recollected that the ages, habits of life, duties, and occupations of British soldiers are the same in the West as in the East Indies; yet in the Windward and Leeward command the cases of hepatic diseases are but 2'24 per cent., as compared with 6'2 in Bengal, 7'93 in Bombay, and 8'92 in Madras. * The terms used for more than a hundred years by the natives of India to describe the "regulation" rum-ration and red tunic ot the European soldier. Bengal, 43 in Bombay, and to 380 in Madras, out of 10,000 of strength. This gratifying result is partly due to the greater
