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And lastly : having said so much respect- 

 ing the care which is to be taken of the body, 

 while in . a foreign climate, the mind must not 

 altogether be lost sight of ; should that be dis- 

 eased, all art fails, and medicine proves abor- 

 tive. To express all I would say on this sub- 

 ject, I cannot do better than quote the language 

 of that learned surgeon Mosely, who, in con- 

 cluding his treatise on tropical diseases, says : 



I cannot dismiss the present subject, in which 

 my views have been principally directed to the 

 avoidable, and to the remediable derangements 

 of the body, without one solitary glance at those 

 derangements of the mind, which no regimen can 

 prevent, nor medicine cure. 



Hot climates administer certain death, ^ to 

 a mind diseased ;^ and where there is in the 

 ^ memory a rooted sorrow," or written * troubles 

 of the brain.^ 



" The want of sleep, in the slightest indispo- 

 sition, is always alarming; and, in the graver 

 diseases of people who have naturally much irri- 



