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Excerpt from Blackwater Fever: Bilious Malignant Tertian Ague
In this little book I desire to give my experiences of Blackwater fever, and to state the conclusions I have come to regarding the nature of the condition from my observation of cases of blackwater fever and severe forms of malaria, my experience being based on nine years' work in India - practically all in the highly malarial regions of the Dooars and Terai in Bengal. It is not my intention to touch on the subject of malaria beyond what affects my views on blackwater fever. Such methods of treatment as I have advocated I have found successful in my own personal case and in those cases treated by me. To those who have not had experience of the condition known as blackwater fever - a term highly unscientific and deserving to be expunged - I trust these methods will be found as useful as I have experienced them. If the views as to the nature of the condition are not accepted by any, I trust this work will stimulate them to scientific enquiry, confirming them or otherwise. I do not believe a large number of cases alone justifies one in expounding opinions; I rather think observation of facts from a given number of cases to one man may lead to a truer interpretation of the facts observed than perhaps a very much larger number of cases would to another who either observed wrongly or interpreted falsely. I have observed the facts related herein, and I believe the interpretation I have put on them to be true. If my work arouses a greater interest in this condition (which I am much interested in), and if it proves of value to those medical officers destined to work in highly malarial districts, it will not have been written in vain.
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