It is an incontestible truth, that the strength or weakness of a people depends, in a great measure, on these causes; and Hippocrates was so much convinced of the justness of this assertion, that he affirmed one might discover by a man’s countenance under what climate he was born, and to what country he belonged[228]. * * * * * The diseases which prevail among the inhabitants of the southern part of India, that is, of _Malabar_, _Canara_, _Maïssur_, _Madura_, _Tanjaur_, _Marava_ and _Parava_, are as follows: _Shralanòva_, the wind-colic. _Sanivali_, nervous cramps and convulsions. _Adisàram_, flux or dysentery. _Calladapa_, the gravel and stone. _Grahanni_, the bloody flux. _Mujali_, a kind of gout. _Kaszalapani_, St. Anthony’s fire, with feverish symptoms. _Pani_, violent fever. _Tridoshagioram_, the fever which has three bad properties; that is, the violent fever. _Mallampani_, a fever that lasts only one day, and is occasioned by a certain wind which blows from the Gauts. _Vidàtapani_, the continued fever. _Dnnaràdenpani_, the tertian fever. _Nàlampani_, the quartan fever. _Kshaja_, phthisis. _Ragiakshaja_, consumption of the lungs. _Nirvàszicia_, involuntary emission of urine. _Pramèham, Gonorrhœa benigna._ _Aadram_, the hemorrhoids. _Mahòdoram_, the dropsy. _Kamala_, the jaundice. _Sannhi_, phrensy combined with convulsions. _Velupa_, or _Cushtam_, leprosy. _Nirtiripa_, or _Nircomben_, an intestinal colic, which proceeds from cold. This disease is in common called _Mordexim_, of which Sonnerat drolly enough makes _Mort de chien_, dog’s death. In the months of October, November and December it prevails much on the coast of Malabar; for about that period certain winds blow from the Gauts, and carry with them a multitude of nitrous particles. _Astisràva_, an inflammatory disease which affects the whole body, and consumes the marrow of the bones. _Ciardhi_, vomiting which proceeds from bile or other causes. _Ractapittam_, bilious fever, which is commonly followed by a flux of blood and putrid matter. _Tipolla_, burning ulcers on the exterior part of the body. _Masuri_, the small-pox; a disease which in India is exceedingly infectious, and sweeps off prodigious multitudes. _Ciori_, the itch. _Arbuda_, cancer. _Ceravarpa_, an ulcer, the fetid smell of which attracts the snake _Cera_. This snake, however, is not poisonous. _Araklèsham_, buboes. _Sannivàdam_, apoplexy. _Engal_, asthma. _Ciuma_, cough.