Penal Settlement, Port Blair; Hospital, Ross Island. In Medical Charge of Surgeon-Major J. Dougall
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exp or(lered alkaline drauglits to be given, believing that es81v? acidity of the stomach was the cause : several doses were eQ without any beneficial result. call'V evening, acute dysentery set in, the patient being ed to tho stool from 10 to 14 times during the night. Next lie r-ain^ &ave him a scruple of ipecacuanha in the hope of rel'10 patient of his obstinate hiccough, but it gave him no We16 "^'le dysenteric symptoms and the troublesome hiccoughs
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The Penal Settlement of Port Blair
man Island. At the entrance to the bay is a small island (Ross), 2^ miles up the bay is a second island (Chatham), and 2 miles beyond Chatham i* a third island (Viper). These three small islands, with numerous stations along the north and south shores of the bay, form the nucleus of the Settlement, which is year by year widening its area from these starting points and spreading inland into Sout...
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