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 various civil stations, and of Professor in the Calcutta Medical College; I have served with Native Infantry and Irregular Cavalry, been Surgeon of a regiment of European Fusiliers, and of a batallion of European Artillery; I was Staff Surgeon to General Gilbert during the Punjaub campaign, and Staff Surgeon to General Godwin during the late Burmese war; I have served throughout four campaigns, been present in nine general actions, received four honorary decorations, viz. Maharajpore, Chilianwalla, Goojerath, Pegu, and twice received the public thanks of the governor General in Council for services in the field.

With such opportunities for observation, and an ambition to benefit a service in which I have spent the best twenty-five years of my life, I have endeavoured to put a useful guide into the hands of Military as well as Medical officers during their years of inexperience; to put a guide into the hands of older officers, to enable them to recover their broken health at some of the numerous sanataria within the Indian limits, (for I also have