Excerpt from Personal Hygiene in Tropical and Semi-Tropical Countries a Popular Manual, Written for the Use of Foreigners, Residing in the Philippines, Cuba, and Other, Portions or the Tropics The colonization Of the tropics has been the dream Of the white race since the dawn of history. Nation after nation has endeavored to establish its people there, but one by one they have failed, and to-day the problem is still unsolved. What has been the cause Of this failure? Some answer that it is the heat that kills. Others maintain that the intense light is the cause Of the white man's decay in the tropics. These and many other theories have been advanced, and no doubt there is a basis Of truth for most Of them. To-day we know that failure to Observe the laws Of hygiene has in a measure caused the failure. That the native races thrive and multiply, living amid the worst hygienic surround ings, is not denied, but they appear to have, as a race, an immunity to their surroundings. One has but to compare the health reports of any tropical city with those Of European or Ameri can cities Of the temperate zone, to be convinced that a large part Of the sickness peculiar to the tropics is from preventable diseases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.