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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol II. 1917' [366] (370/542)
The record is made up of 1 volume (271 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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366
HYGIENE AND DISEASE
or apprehension mnst be sedulously discouraged. Fatigue, chill
excess—particularly dietetic or alcoholic excess—are to be carefully
avoided. Visits to cholera districts should be postponed if possible
seeing that the new-comer is specially liable to contract the disease!
Unripe fruit, over-ripe fruit,' shell-fish,' food in a state of decomposi
tion, and everything tending to upset the digestive organs and to
cause intestinal catarrh, are dangerous. Melons, cucumbers, and
the like, deserve the evil reputation they have acquired. Purgatives
—particularly saline purgatives—unless very specially indicated,
should never be taken at these times. All drinking-water, and ali
water in which dishes and everything used in the preparation and
serving of food are washed, should be boiled. 1 Filters—except
perhaps the Pasteur-Chamberland filter—are not for the most part
to be relied on ; in many instances they are more likely to con
taminate the water passed through them than to purify it.
'All food should be protected from flies.
' Diarrhoea occurring during cholera epidemics should be promptly
and vigorously treated. During cholera epidemics it is customary
to establish depots where sedative and astringent remedies for the
treatment of diarrhoea are dispensed gratuitously. Experience
seems to encourage the belief that by such means incipient cholera
may be aborted during the stage of premonitory diarrhoea. Of the
various drugs used with this view, chlorodyne and brandy are the
most popular. Whether true cholera can be cut short in this way
or not, it is certainly in the highest degree advisable at such a time
to neglect no case of diarrhoea, but to insist on rest, warmth, and
the greatest prudence in feeding, in all cases of intestinal catarrh
or irritation.'
Warmth, stimulants, sips of iced water or soda-water, gentle
friction, morphia, the use of large intravenous or subcutaneous
injections of saline fluid, and the giving of permanganate of potas
sium, are the chief lines of the treatment of cholera. All food
should be withheld while the disease is active ; and the return to
ordinary food must be very gradually and carefully managed.
The average mortality is about 50 per cent, of the cases. Patients
after recovery may still carry the germs in their bodies, and
1 The Journal of the R.A.M.C., ii, 1914, contains a review of a lecture, by an
Austrian doctor, on his experiences in Adrianople during the Balkan War of 1912.
' He was agreeably surprised, on accepting an invitation to dine with a Bulgarian
artillery regiment, to find all the dishes served up piping hot, the bread steaming,
and all the plates dipped in boiling water before being placed on the table. The
colonel explained that lie had taken these steps since one of his officers had
succumbed to cholera.'
He onset is i
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This volume is A Handbook of Arabia, Volume II, Routes (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: May, 1917) and contains details on routes in the Arabian Peninsula, as well as information on transport and lines of communication arranged on a geographical basis. Chapters concerning meteorological information, hygiene and disease, and vocabularies have also been incorporated. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and the War Office. The sources from which the routes have been compiled, together with notes on directions and distance, appear at the head of each chapter, while some sections have been compiled on the basis of native information. Authorities cited include: George August Wallin, William Gifford Palgrave, Carlo Claudio Camillo Guarmani, Lady Anne Blunt, Charles Huber, Julius Euting, Gerard Leachman, Gertrude Bell, Anders Christian Barclay Raunkiær, William Henry Irvine Shakespear, and John Gordon Lorimer.
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, title page, and a 'Note' on the compilation of the volume. There is a page of 'Contents' that includes the following sections:
- Chapter 1: Methods of Transport;
- Chapter 2: Communications, A. Northern Routes, B. Eastern Routes, C. Central Routes, D. Western Routes, E. South-Western Routes, F. Southern Routes, G. Souther-Eastern Routes;
- Chapter 3: Routes, A. Northern Routes, B. Eastern Routes, C. Central Routes, D. Western Routes, E. South-Western Routes, F. Southern Routes, G. Souther-Eastern Routes;
- Chapter 4: Meteorological Observations;
- Chapter 5: Hygiene and Disease;
- Chapter 6: Vocabularies;
- Appendix: Note on the System of Transliteration and Glossary of Topographical and Common Terms;
- Index;
- Plates.
There is also a 'List of Maps' and a 'Note on the Spelling of Proper Terms'.
There is one map contained in this volume: 'Map 5. Key Map of Routes'. In addition, there are nine plates by Douglas Carruthers, Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Captain Gerard Leachman, and Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (271 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in chapters. There is a contents page, list of maps, alphabetical index, and list of plates.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the map which is inserted at the back of the volume, on number 271.
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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