Excerpt from Shanghai Hygiene, or Hints for the Preservation of Health in China
Among several valuable Works, bearing on the prevention and treatment of disease in and near the Tropics, written for professional men; I am not aware of any work on these important subjects, which could aid, or be of much use to the general reader. This is a great mistake, considering that a man"s health and life are involved in the consequences; and though some know better and do worse, yet it is always safe, and frequently successful, to appeal to the reason and common sense of an Englishman, and to place the real facts, or the truth before him, and let him judge for himself. This I have tried to do in the following pages. It will be observed that I have availed myself largely of the mature experience, and accurate observation of the best Authorities, men who have devoted their time, talents, and life, to the practical study of these matters. My own remarks are also made after much consideration, and some experience of the diseases peculiar to this region, and after carefully observing the effects of this climate on European constitutions. I have been particularly careful not to admit opinions or propositions to be facts, before submitting them to the most strict and rigorous examination; and in the practical investigation of the subjects treated in these pages, over a wide field of medical observation and inquiry, I have constantly striven never to forget or disregard a single fact, however unimportant it appeared at the time of its discovery; but being once satisfied of having found these facts or truths, I have always, when practicable made them motives of action, and mainsprings of conduct in treating disease. The great Cullen remarked that there are more false facts, than false theories in medicine; and I need not say how much confusion has arisen, or how much mischief has been done, or how many lives have been lost, by admitting as facts what were only theories or opinions.
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