The Use of Bael in Bowel Complaints

My attention was first called to the subject, some years ago, by a brother officer when I was stationed in a very damp district where diarrhoea and dysentery wero not uncommon complaints. I was myself then attacked with the latter form of disease, which rapidly disappeared under bael treatment. Since then I have been frequently in localities where European medical offieera were not always present and I have suggested or administered the same remedy to both Europeans and Natives suffering from either of the above complaints, and invariably the bael has caused most satisfactory results. The subject of the use of bael is not by any means a new one, and I believe the fruit is extensively used for medicinal purposes by the Presidency Surgeons; but, as far as my experience goes, it might with the greatest advantage be much more used in Upper India for the above complaints than is the case at present. I feel sure that a great deal of mortality in English regiments from the scourge of dysentery would be saved by the free use of bael fruit, as I have found its effects