That there are other ways of getting dysentery I have no doubt, but a tolerably long experience has convinced me that the above is the history of nine cases out of every ten that one meets with, and it follows from this _that the all-important safeguard against dysentery is to protect the abdomen from chill_. From this it follows that a cardinal measure of precaution in the preservation of health in hot climates is the adequate clothing of this part of the body. It is this fact that accounts for the general consensus of opinion as to the value of the familiar article of clothing known as the “cholera belt,” though I am by no means inclined to regard the said garment as the best, or even a good, method of attaining the object. At best the thickness of material is inadequate, it is generally made too narrow to include the liver above and much of the lower part of the abdomen below within its protection, and it naturally has a strong tendency to “ruck” together so as to form merely a very uncomfortable sort of belt, quite valueless for the purpose for which it is intended. For wear during the day a much more comfortable and efficient garment is the well-known Oriental “kamarband,” a long, narrow scarf of woollen, cotton, or silk, according to taste, folded into a broad band and worn twisted round the waist in place of a waistcoat, over which it possesses the superiority of leaving the upper part of the body free. The elasticity of the folded scarf gives also a comfortable feeling of support, without any of the sensation of constriction inseparable from a belt, and its adaptation to climatic needs is testified by the fact of its being, in one form or another, in use by every tropical race, if we except the Negro, who seems to the manner born, and to want little artificial protection while he keeps within the limits, to meet the conditions of which he evolved. How the Negro gets on with no clothing at all, and the really much civilised Bengali contrives to survive without a hat, are problems which we poor products of centuries of artifice cannot be expected to solve; but the bald fact remains that the Northern European, when translated to the Tropics, must protect his viscera against cold in equatorial climates, even more carefully than in his native north, if he wants to get back there alive.