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 among such of the people as live in filth and intemperance." Ramohun Fingee, the famous Indian doctor, says, that "people who did not take spirits or opium do not catch this disorder, even when they are with those who have it." In the army under the command of the Marquis of Hastings, in India, consisting of 18,000 men, more than 9000 died in the first twelve days. And every one knows that soldiers, and especially in warm climates, are notorious for habits of intemperance. Dr. Joenichin, of Moscow, declares that "drunkeness, debauchery, bad food, and personal indiscretions, were indubitably its predisposing causes." Monsieur Huber, who saw 2160 persons perish in 25 days, (more than 86 a day,) in one town in Russia, says, "It is a most remarkable circumstance, that persons given to drinking have been swept away like flies. In Tiffis, containing 20,000 inhabitants, ''every drunkard has fallen! All are dead! not one remains!"''

Dr. Becker, whose extensive experience entitles his opinion to deep respect, has recorded this caution, "Above all things avoid intemperance, which at Berlin, as every where else, has been found to render its votaries the first victims to this destructive pestilence." The London Medical Gazette remarks, that "intemperance gives a claim to the pestilenccpestilence [sic] which it never overlooks. In every town and district, from the Ganges to the Wear, the drunkard has been the object of its earliest attack, and its most ruthless visitation." The London Morning Herald observes, that "The same preference for the intemperate and the uncleanly has characterized the Cholera every where. Intemperance is a qualification which it never overlooks. Often has it passed harmlessly over a wide population of temperatctemperate [sic] country people, and poured down as an overflowing scourge upon the drunkards of some distant town." The Edinburgh Board of Health says, "Experience has shown, that the most cssentialessential [sic] precaution for cscapingescaping [sic] the disease is sobriety; that intoxication during the prevalence of the epidemic is almost sure to be followed by an attack—and that those addicted to drink, are the most subject to Cholera, and the most likely to sink under it." The Journal of Humanity states, that "In Poland nine-tenths of those who died of Cholera were known to be brandy drinkers. In Paris the victims of the disease wcrcwere [sic], with fcwfew [sic] exceptions, among the