54 ANALYTIC SECT. VII. 
commonly to be found in the ventricles of the 
brain, on its surface, or between its membranes. 
The gall-bladder is most commonly filled with 
black viscid bile. 
cxu. As death constantly occurs by coma fol- 
lowing the cold stage, the blood-vessels of all the 
viscera are found immoderately full; this sort of 
mechanical distention is regarded by many prac- 
titioners as inflammation of all these organs. 
cx1u. The physiological question at issue in 
this place, is the cause of spasm in Indian cholera. 
cxiv. When this disease is epidemic, it. prevails 
at. all seasons of the year; in the Deccan it is 
endemial only in the rainy season, and attacks 
chiefly those Hindoos who are badly clothed and 
indifferently nourished. The Mahomedans of 
the same country are little subject to it, from 
their using a more nutritive diet. 
cxv. Accustomed to go nearly naked, in an 
atmosphere that is generally about 90° in the 
shade during the day, the Hindoos have the 
blood-vessels at the surface of the body preter- 
naturally distended; but during the prevalence of 
the north winds on the Coromandel coast, when 
the atmosphere is moist and cold, contraction of 
the extreme vessels causes a great determination 
of the fluids to the viscera, if the effects of 
the season be not counteracted by clothing, and 
nourishing aliment. 
