Excerpt from Researches Into the Causes, Nature, and Treatment of the More Prevalent Diseases of India, and of Warm Climates Generally: To Which Is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author But happily the picture is changed, and in no department of the profession has there been more real improvement than in that which is considered as Military Surgery. The ge neral knowledge of the human frame, and 'the manner in which the functions are exercised by its several parts, have been diligently studied - the study of Physiology has placed it on its proper basis. In no condition can this appliance be more needed than in those cases which occur in climates of intense severity, either of cold or heat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.