In all unhealthy countries the greatest risk is run by sleeping on shore.
Is this owing to the state of the body during sleep, or to a greater abundance of miasma at such times?
It appears certain that those who stay on board a vessel, though anchored at only a short distance from the coast, generally suffer less than those actually on shore.

On the other hand, I have heard of one remarkable case where a fever broke out among the crew of a man-of-war some hundred miles off the coast of Africa, and at the same time one of those fearful periods of death commenced at Sierra Leone.

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A similar interesting case is recorded in the "Madras Medical Quarterly Journal" 1839 page 340.

Dr.Ferguson in his admirable Paper see 9th volume of "Edinburgh Royal Transactions" shows clearly that the poison is generated in the drying process; and hence that dry hot countries are often the most unhealthy.) No state in South America, since the declaration of independence, has suffered more from anarchy than Peru.