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soon, thus relieve themselves. Persians and 

 northern Asiatics are even more liable to attacks 

 than Europeans ; and, as in Egypt, rude health 

 is rare. Some Indian Moslems have fled the 

 country, believing themselves bewitched. Arabs 

 born on the island, and the Banyans, who seldom 

 suffer much from the fever, greatly dread its 

 secondary symptoms. The c hummeh,' or inter- 

 mittent type, is remarkable for the virulence and 

 persistency of the sequelae, which the Arabs call 

 6 JSTazlah ' (metastasis), or defluxion of humours 

 — 6 dropping into the hoofs ' as the grooms say. 

 Cerebral and visceral complications, with de- 

 rangements of the liver and spleen, produce 

 obstinate diarrhoeas, dysenteries, and a long dire 

 cohort of diseases. Men of strong nervous 

 diathesis escape with slight consequences in the 

 shape of white hair, boils, bad toothaches, 

 neuralgias, and sore tongues. The weak lose 

 memory, or virility, or the use of a limb, the 

 finger-joints especially being liable to stiffen; 

 many become deaf or dim-sighted, not a few are 

 subject to paralysis in its various forms, whilst 

 others, tormented by hepatitis, constipation, and 

 disorders of the bowels and of the digestive 

 organs, never completely recover health. In 

 this country all attribute to the moon at the 



