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CHEERFULNESS RECOMMENDED. 
found that those who used the good things of this life, 
without abusing them, continued the longest exempt 
from an attack, and some escaped altogether; while of 
those who had followed the opposite plan, or total absti- 
nence from wines and fermented liquors, not one had 
an immunity from the fever, or recovered, and their 
cases were among the earliest fatal. We wish this to 
be particularly marked, as some persons from mistaken 
views have recommended, a course quite opposed to 
these facts. 
Above all we must add, the encouragement of cheer- 
fulness and innocent recreations, with suitable protec- 
tion from the sun. We have seen the good effects of 
such a system, and cannot too higlily recommend if'h 
* As the character of this narrative precludes the possibility of 
going further into medical details, we refer our readers to the works 
of Doctors McWilliam and Piatchett. 
