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A Voyage to the East Indies; containing authentic accounts of the Mogul government in general, the viceroyalties of the Decan and Bengal, with their several subordinate dependances ... With general reflections on the trade of India
By John Henry Grose (1750-1783)
Published by S.Hooper , London - 1772
Volume 2

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JOHN HENRY GROSE (fl. 1750–1783), civil servant of the East India Company, younger brother of Francis Grose left England in March 1750 for Bombay, ' in the station of a covenant servant and writer to the East India Company.' He had the good fortune to be recommended by a director in London to a nephew of the governor of Bombay; his introduction to the new mode of life was made easy to him, and he would seem to have been afforded unusual opportunities, which a faculty for observation enabled him to turn to good account. In 1757 he published 'A Voyage to the East Indies' in one vol., and in 1766 a second edition (2 vols. 8vo), with a history of the war, 1756-1763, and etchings by his brother Francis. A third edition was published in 1772. The first edition gives a good account of Eastern manners and customs, then little known, and the work has been made the basis of many popular accounts. It is said to have been compiled from Grose's notes by John Cleland. A French translation by Philippe Hernandez was published in London in 1758. Grose, who was a member of the Society of Arts, lived at Richmond, Surrey, in 1783. By his wife, Sarah Smalley, daughter of John Browning, a woolstapler, of Barnaby Street, Southwark, he left issue; his son John is noticed separately. (Wikisource)

MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS:

John Henry Grose (fl. 1750-83), a civil servant of the East India Company, noted, “For bloody fluxes, the Brahmins suggest a very simple, but as they pretend a most in fallible remedy, consisting in a strict abstinence from every thing but rice stewed dry...that is excellent against that acrimony which preys on the entrails, and breeds the disorder.” Grose found, “Chronical disorders, such as the gout, rheumatism, stone, consumption, &c. are rarely known in those parts, and none of the distempers, more particular to them, are so frequent or general as to form a just objection to the venturing into that climate.” He had his respect for local and indigenous remedies.

“Myrobolans they generally use in purging, and have the highest opinion of their effects, either as a preventive, or a medicine.” In his two-volume work, we find frequent mentions of hospitals, which were then in regular operation for European soldiers.

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