| Show THE CLIMATE of THE TROPICS the question whether white men successfully can combat the sickness prevailing in tropical regions and become acclimatized la Is one of much interest as it becomes apparent that the spanish west indian islands the philippines and hawaii all tropical countries oun tries are about to be more intimately ti associated with the american people than formerly the popular be lief used to be that the inhabitants of the colder regions of the world cannot successfully colonize the tropics and although this actually has been done it is contended that even when the original colonist lives his natural term of years his children will show the degenerative influences of the hot ell climate mate this latter supposition to is borne out by the fact that children of british parents in india if brought up in that country do not reach the standard of the homebred home bred briton the subject is one of peculiar interest high authority on tropical pathology gy is quoted by the medical record in support of the opinion that the reason why so many northerners find a premature death in the tropics is that they as a rule are unwilling to fo change their habits in respect to eating drinking and clothing the diseases that so enany contract are nearly all of origin and in a great measure preventable ven table by sanitary regulations soma tropical countries that used to be veritable pest holes have been converted into health resorts and this can be done with others heat and moisture are not the direct causes of the diseases peculiar to the tropics but germs and in gani sanitary tary regulations and a natural temperate mode of living are found good protection against the attacks of the deadly microbe |
