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loss of sleep. The most distressing and painful 
feature of the disease is, however, the demoralis¬ 
ing effect that it has upon the individual, intel¬ 
lectually and physically, after the acute and 
critical stages have safely passed. The brain, 
nerves, and muscular system are entirely upset 
and weakened, and the powers of thought, de¬ 
cision, and even of self-preservation, overturned; 
and the abject misery which follows upon all this 
to the bewildered and solitary being whose lot 
may be cast in the remoter districts is so complete 
that insanity often follows. 
A lamentable story was told me by the natives 
of a Eoman priest, a good man, who had been sent 
down considerably to the south of Anddvoranto, 
to a small settlement on the banks of one of 
the large rivers. He worked on zealously for a 
time, but at length he fell a victim to the fever, 
and the fearful natives, much as they loved him, 
failed to keep him under due restraint during 
the crisis of his malady; and breaking out of the 
hut in the night, parched and burning with the 
wasting plague, he wandered up and down the 
banks of the flowing stream, and at length, in 
a sudden paroxysm of despair, cast himself into 
the surging waters, and thus ended once for all 
a valuable and heroic life. 
The native mode of treatment for fever, with 
the addition of constant doses of quinine, is 
