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Diseases of Hayti. 
seen that they have little to fear from the effects of its climate, 
and other matters being favorable to all such as like to come 
over, the question in respect to their health after they shall have 
arrived, is not less satisfactory. It might even, perhaps, not be 
irrational to infer that the climate of the tropics would be more 
salutary and propitious to the greater part, if not to all, without 
distinction, than that of the so much colder region now inhabited 
by them in North America, and which does not appear to have 
been originally strictly destined by nature for the constitution of 
the African people. 
We have shown that sickness is restricted almost to the mar¬ 
itime towns, and to marshy situations in the vicinity of the sea- 
coast, where it will not be to the interest of emigrants to remain 
when tjiey get here. We have now to affirm that, away from 
the towns, in the interior and rural districts, but few diseases or 
distempers are known; indeed, the interior of the country is so 
healthful as not to be at all the physician’s El Dorado. Mem¬ 
bers of the profession do not get rich in Hayti. People do die 
out in the country, as they must die everywhere, but it is seldom 
or rarely we hear talk of any illness of a complicated or alarm¬ 
ing character, such as is common in America and elsewhere. 
During the cool or rainy seasons, one will meet with cases of 
colds, simple catarrhal affections, sore throat, some looseness of 
the bowels, arising from the use of crude fruits and change of 
water, which are easily remedied by removal of the causes 
that incite them; while in the hot, dry season, in certain situa¬ 
tions, sore eyes, in its simple form, and deranged stomachs, 
may also be met with, as in other countries, and w r hich are re¬ 
garded in country places as of little importance. 
We will finish this paper by subjoining a list of simple medi¬ 
cines, which will be useful to the emigrants who are destined, 
on their arrival in Hayti, to seek their fortunes by locating them¬ 
selves in the rich, rural, and agricultural districts, at a distance 
from, efficient medical aid, — and for this reason especially we 
at the same time recommend to all who may decide on coming 
