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T HE catalogue of diseases in Hayti does not present anything 
nearly so complex in character, nor so many varieties of 
types, as are known to exist in colder latitudes, and in countries 
where annually the four seasons succeed each other more uni¬ 
formly, and where each in particular is characterized by sudden 
thermometric fluctuations and meteorological transitions. In the 
maritime towns, and in marshy situations near the seacoast, 
during the hot months, and also towards the fall of the year, 
remittent, bilious-remittent, or inflammatory remittent, typhus, 
and simple continued fevers, and intermittents of the tertian 
type, usually prevail. 
An attack from any one form of these fevers is more or less 
serious, if not decidedly dangerous; the intensity, character, 
and termination, are always influenced, as in other hot countries, 
by the habits and temperament of the patient’s body, as well as 
by the nature of the locality where the disease originates. 
Individuals of sober, regular habits, who are cleanly in their 
persons, and whose constitutions are not injured by the use of 
spirituous liquors and other excesses, may live in Hayti to an 
advanced age without having been subjected to many serious 
attacks of fever, or other malignant malady; and this remark 
applies even to the white or European resident, who is evidently 
much more predisposed to fall under the evil effects of hot 
climates, and is more obnoxious to the diseases of torrid coun¬ 
tries, than persons of African blood. 
