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100 years ago: Concerning the preservation of health in the tropics

24 Jun 2010Registered users

'A healthy lad with a moderate outfit, good food, personal cleanliness, plenty of work, and a disposition that does not worry will do well in India. When a man begins to worry it is time for him to go home, and that applies if he suffers from the so-called Aden or Burma or Punjaub or Madras head. When a man forgets, calls things by wrong names, gets irritable, broods about his work at night, develops insomnia, and loses his confidence, those are symptoms of neurasthenia and the treatment is to send the case home. The Government gives one year's "leave" in every five and a month in every year, and the Goverment would not do that if it did not find that it was necessary.'

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