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 two weeks after birth. That the children of this part of the country should be so subject to this disease while those of Natches and New Telleciana immediately adjoining, are free from it, is curious. With Dr. Moseley, I would attribute it to the greater inhumanity of the Spanish and French planters exercised over the parents of these unfortunate children, and to the want of proper attention in the nursing of the child itself.