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intermittent fever.* If the properties and general 

 usefulness of limes, lemons, &c., were taught in 

 schools, it would not take much persuasion to induce 

 every zemindar in a village to have a small garden, 

 near a well, where some lemon or lime trees could be 

 grown. The school is the best channel for intro- 

 ducing useful ideas among the people of India. The 

 rising generation will then be almost sure to make 

 them household sayings. 



* It should be noted that natives believe that for the first three 

 days of intermittent fever, nothing should be done ! This is Hakim- 

 nonsense. The sooner intermittent fever is dealt with, the sooner 

 it will be cured, and the less consequences will occur. 



