Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

THE CHOLERA. 121

attacked some members of a family and the
rest escaped, although in close attendance—even
such as failed not to pay the last duties to
the deceased according to Mussulmaun custom,
which exposed them more immediately to
danger if infection existed ;—yet no fears were
ever entertained, nor did I ever hear an opinion
expressed amongst them, that it had been, or
could be conveyed from one person to another.

Native children generally escaped the at-
tack, and I never heard of an infant being in
the slightest degree visited by this malady. It
is, however, expedient to use such precautionary
measures as sound sense and reason may sug-
gest, since wherever the cholera has appeared,
it has proved a national calamity, and not a
partial scourge to a few individuals; all are
alike in danger of its consequences, whether
the disorder be considered infectious or not,
and therefore the precautions I have urged in
India, amongst the Native communities, I re-
commend with all humility here, that cleanli-
ness and abstemious diet be observed among all
classes of people.

In accordance with the prescribed antidote