116 CHOLERA. 



years the cholera will, according to pestilential usage, re- 

 tire to its old limits, and there perhaps seem to expire, 

 until forgotten and contemned, it will, after a long repose, 

 burst again over the fields of India, and the realms of 

 Europe and America.* 



* Since this paragraph was written the cholera has returned to Europe 

 and America, unchanged in character, and unmodified in severity. Again, 

 it haunts damp rural places, and offensive urban localities. Again, it se- 

 lects its victims from amongst the poor, who are destitute of the oppor- 

 tunity of defending themselves from the circumambiency of the provoca- 

 tives of infection. Filth, dampness, and innutrition ; fatigue, bad habits, 

 and neglect of premonitions, doom these unfortunates to the superadded 

 evils of pestilence, torture, and death. 



