.As in most other pa1·ts of the globe, the lower grounds in Texas, near the west, especially the thickly timbered, are less healthy than situations in the upland country or the interior. '!'his remark does not apply to the coast itself, which is open to the healthful inHu- ence of the trade winds, that almost perpetually blow from the south and east. 1u considerable districts of the country, particularly on the river San Antonio, disease is scarcely known; but in other places where sickness occasionally pre- vails, the complaints are ordinarily of a bilious char- acter. Those most prevalent, the last of summer and in autumn, are remittent and intermittent fevers. In the winter, pneumonia typhoides, or bastard pleurisy, is most common.-Asthma and all consumptive dis- eases of the lungs, so frequent and so fatal in the ~orthern States, are there never to be met with. In the spring, the bowels seem to be most obnoxious to disease, assuming the form of dia1·r7wea, or bloody flux. Of the chronic diseases, which are the sequel of· those of a more active kind; the most troublesome are enlargement of the spleen and hemorrhoids.-Another, considerably frequent, though not epidemic malady, is purulent opthalmia. Those most healthy are, gen- erally speaking, persons least careful not to expose themselves to the air, whether by day or by night. It is a common remark in Texas, that there seems to be something peculiar to that country, to create a
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