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PEINCrPAL DISEASES. 
Whether this is owing to the wide-spread distribution of 
silicious and loamy soils and subsoils of the tertiary forma- 
tion, holding " fi'eestone water," or to some other cause, 
we will not say. But the fact is historical and worthy of 
notice, that throughout the larger part of the area of the 
Southern States cholera is unknown. 
With regard to constitutional diseases, sucb as con- 
sumption, rheumatism, and the various forms of scrofula, 
a man is certainly as safe south of the parallel of 35° as he 
is north of it ; and in reference to local, irritative, and in- 
flammatory affections, we know, from personal observation, 
that Mississippi is healthier than Indiana, 
Acclimation. — The whole mystery of acclimation is 
simply this : let a new-comer obey the laws of health, and 
he will escape ; let him violate these laws, and he will suf- 
fer the penalty. 
If, forgetting the dictates of reason and the promptings 
of refined emotion, he yield himself to animal impulse, eat 
and drink like the brute that fattens for the slaughter-pen, 
be deserves to pass through the fiery ordeal of fever. 
If, on the other hand, he inquire into the laws which 
regulate the preservation of health and the prevention of 
disease, and submit himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the 
obedience of these laws, immunity is the result. 
Let hira avoid night air, malarious swamps, big suppers, 
and the whiskey bottle ; let him keep in the shade as much 
as possible from ten o'clock a.m. to three p.m.; let him 
shun all barbecues, midnight balls, and masquerades; let 
him learn to subdue his passions and improve himself in mo- 
rality , and, our word for it, if he possesses a good constitu- 
tion as a basis of operations, he will pass along unscathed. 
It is a popular idea that the immigrant must have the 
acclimating fever. This idea is erroneous. Many of our 
