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To point it out is not to regret barbarism ; it is 

 not to partake the opinions of those,, who would 

 break the bands that unite nations, not in order 

 to render the ports of the colonies more healthy, 

 but to thwart the introduction of knowledge, 

 and slacken the progress of reason. 



The yellow fever and the black vomit cease 

 periodically at the Havannah and Vera Cruz, 

 when the north winds bring the cold air of 

 Canada toward the Gulf of Mexico. But from 

 the extreme equality of temperature, which cha- 

 racterizes the climates of Porto-Cabello, La 

 Guayra, New Barcelona, and Cumana, it may 

 be feared, that the typhus will there become 

 permanent, whenever, from a great concourse of 

 strangers, it has acquired a high degree of ex- 

 acerbation. Happily the mortality has dimin- 

 ished since the treatment of this epidemic has 

 been varied, according to the character it pre- 

 sents in different years ; and since the different 

 stages of the disease have been better studied, 

 which are recognized by symptoms of inflam- 

 mation, and of ataxy or debility. It would> I 

 think, be unjust to deny the success, which the 

 new system of medicine has obtained over this 

 terrible scourge ; yet the persuasion of this suc- 

 cess has not made much progress in the colo- 

 nies. It is there said pretty generally, "that 

 the physicians now explain the course of the 

 disease in a more satisfactory manner than they 



