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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt:...from their sires in fatherland, of eating breakfast by candle light? Another very significant fact in point is, that the French in the south are longer lived and suffer far less from the fevers of the country than their American neighbors! in truth, their exemption is proverbial, and as a class they have their coffee and boiled milk, half and half, with sugar, brought to their bedsides every morning, or take it before they leave the house. It is not an uncommon thing for persons to go west to select a new home for their rising families never to return; " took sick and died!" This is the sad and comprehensive statement of the widowed and the fatherless, owing doubtless, in many instances to their traveling on horseback early in the morning, arid late in the evening, in order to avoid the heat of the day. Many a traveler will save his life by taking a warm and hearty breakfast before starting in the morning, and by putting up for the night not later than sundown. It is of considerable practical inportance to answer the question, why more persons have died in " the States " from Isthmus fever than in California! Simply, because on their way out, their bodies are comparatively vigorous, and there is in addition a degree of mental and moral excitement which repels disease; but on the return, it is strikingly different; the body is wasted by hardship and privation, while the spirit is broken by disappointment, or the mind falls into a species of exhaustion when successful, from the long and anxious strife for gold; both causes operating, one to weaken the body, the other to take away all mental elasticity; it is no wonder that the whole man becomes an easy prey to disease. James Hills, M. D. WHAT IS CHOLERA? The theory of cholera is, in its nature,...