taken tie field before me. But owing to the extreme brevity with which diseases have been treated of... it is questionable. whether their works have provet useful to the Native foctors,. much less to the public at large. A treatise in Vernacular on the treatment of diseases of Infahcy” and Childhood on a more ełlarged scale is therefore a desiæratum, especially when a midwifery class has been established in the Calcutta Medical College. I have spared no pains to render he work intelligible, though I am not prepared to say, how far my efforts have been attended with success. But such efforts as these coll, Yಿ be expected to bring out the desired result unless they meet with due encourat the hands of competent critical scholars and unless their importance is duly appreciated by the public. If fathers or relatives, instead of consigning their diseased children to the 'Te of usexpert or ignoruit wonnen,” attend to the instructions laid down in the present work and be thus enabled to save even a single infant from premature death, I shall certainly feel myself amply repaid for all the labor bestowed upon it. 縣
- In writing these prefatory remarks, it is scarcely necessary to give a synopsis of the contents of the work which may be gath: ered from the index, I will therefore content myself with a mere classification of diseases as treated of, in the following Þages. ಗೌe Maladies which pervade the entire system have been first dwelt upon, and those which affect particular localities and organs have been lost mentioned. •Digestion is the principal function of life, the food which we take, after undergoing Lottain processes i» tho digestive apparatus, fé transformtd into a*liquid and mixing, with the venous blood is purified at the respiratory organs &nd then circulajes through the body, thus contributing to its growth and nourishment. As these functions are not performed without the aid of the nervous system, after a description of diseases which pervade the entire body, the following classification has been adopted for the treatment of Local Diseases viz:— (1) Diseases of the digestive and assimilative organs. (2.) Dis
