Excerpt from The Practitioner, Vol. 29: A Journal of Therapeutics and Public Health; July to December, 1882 Some have attributed dysentery to chill, or great and sudden differences between the temperature of the day and night. This does not hold good in the highlands of Peru, where dysentery is not common, though the days are often broiling and the nights freezing. 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.