Excerpt from A Manual of the Climate and Diseases of Tropical Countries My Dear Friend. The accomplishment of the benevolent and patriotic views which influence your conduct in the important office which you fill, will be, to you, a source of the highest gratification. These views induced you to urge me to undertake the following work; to turn my mind to the formation of a small volume, easy of purchase, comprehensive of matter, direct and pointed in its precepts, solely the result of actual experience, and consequently purely practical; for the use of young medical practitioners going to hot climates to reside in public or private practice. Conscious of the inadequacy of my own ability, to execute a work possessed of these qualities, you know, I long resisted your flattering, but friendly entreaties. I have, at length, however, yielded up my own judgment to yours: - and with the warmest and most genuine wish to endeavour to be useful in the obtainment of so very important an object, I submit, through you, the result of my experience and observation to the public. I wish to prove, in doing this, that pains have been taken, to give the unexperienced, that knowledge of what they are to meet and contend with, in the tropical climate, which may enable them to enter the combat with courage and effect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.