Letters from foreign lands . r thanhere. MALARIA AND DYSENTERY. As has already been stated the chief scourgeof this island is malaria, and next to it comesdysentery. It is a well-known fact thatwherever malaria is very bad, endemic dy-sentery is likely to be almost or quite as one time the cause was believed to be theameba dysenterica, but this is now am of the opinion that diarrhea and dys- 50 entery are symptoms of many different kindsof infection, and that it will yet be proventhat amoeba, bacteria, and even the chemicalconstituents of soil, water, and food cancause their
Letters from foreign lands . r thanhere. MALARIA AND DYSENTERY. As has already been stated the chief scourgeof this island is malaria, and next to it comesdysentery. It is a well-known fact thatwherever malaria is very bad, endemic dy-sentery is likely to be almost or quite as one time the cause was believed to be theameba dysenterica, but this is now am of the opinion that diarrhea and dys- 50 entery are symptoms of many different kindsof infection, and that it will yet be proventhat amoeba, bacteria, and even the chemicalconstituents of soil, water, and food cancause their appearance. Measles is the most dangerous of theirso-called zymotic diseases. Smallpox, ty-phoid, whooping cough, and pneumonia arecommon. Tuberculosis is less common thanin Europe; diabetes is prevalent, as is alsocancer. At Hendala there is a leper asylumin which there are usually between three andfour hundred cases. Diphtheria is rare andgout unknown. There are good hospitals,medical colleges and dispensaries in TOURING THE DECCAN. Nature has divided India into two granddivisions, the line of demarcation of whichis the Nerbudda River. The Deccan, orCountry of the South, is, from a geological,biological and geographical standpoint, prob-ably the most remarkable as well as the mostinteresting region on our globe, while thenorth country, fiom an ethnological view-point is, without doubt, incomparably, themost interesting. Few visiting tourists arefamiliar enough with science to appreciatethese facts or to care for the bearings they arelikely to have on the future beliefs and fu-ture destinies of mankind. It never occursto them, when going through the Deccan,that here is the present battlefield betweenthe believers and disbelievers of the greatland of Lemuria, that is supposed to haveoccupied much of the present Indian travel over thousands of miles of coun-try that constitutes one of the strangest geo-logical sights upon this globe and never giveit a thoug
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