THE REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA. 
317 
patients died, the following is a list of all numbering over 
ten victims : — 
Consumption . 
.75 
Fever (perniciosa) 
.74 
Dysentery 
.68 
Entero-colitis . 
. ..63 
Yellow fever . 
.52 
Enteritis . 
.. . 42 
Pneumonia 
.33 
Alcoholism 
.24 
Small-pox 
. . , , . . . 18 
Cachexia paludica 
.18 
Typhoid fever 
.11 
Of the consumptive patients, probably the majority 
were foreigners seeking safety in the mild climate of 
Guatemala; and in the others the disease was not of 
throat origin, but sprang from that unclean state that 
wise physicians are beginning to recognize as phthisical in 
its tendency. 
I wish I could say more of the remedies of the Indios. 
In a land abounding in healing plants, it would be sup¬ 
posed that the inhabitants would be expert in their quali¬ 
ties ; and so the Indios are, if report may be trusted (they 
are said to cure even hernia, by applying astringent herbs 
to the tumor). But they are shy, and unwilling to 
display their knowledge before strangers; and my stay 
among them was too short to invite their confidence. 
The Caribs do not seem to possess much knowledge of 
the healing art. 
From the bodily ills of a people one turns naturally to 
the moral diseases; and it is interesting to note what are 
the crimes and misdemeanors to which punishments are 
most frequently allotted. Of 9,303 persons tried during 
